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The Daily Alaska Empire
Juneau, Juneau County, Alaska
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A soil conservation survey disclosed in Washington on August 7 shows over 51 million acres of US land wasted by erosion, nearly twice Kansas's size. Rural Electrification Administrator Morris L. Cook warns that continuing trends will leave fertile land at three times Nebraska's size in 50 years, with less than 100 years remaining.
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August 7.—An unpublished soil conservation surface erosion survey was disclosed today, showing that an area nearly twice the size of Kansas has been laid waste.
Morris L. Cook, Rural Electrification Administrator, told the National Institute of Public Affairs that "if things go on as they are, in 50 years we will have a total area of really fertile lands not much more than three times the size of Nebraska. We have as a nation, less than a hundred years to go."
The total land destroyed is more than 51,000,000 acres.
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An unpublished soil conservation survey reveals that an area nearly twice the size of Kansas has been laid waste by surface erosion. Morris L. Cook warns that if trends continue, in 50 years fertile lands will be no more than three times Nebraska's size, giving the nation less than 100 years left. Total destroyed land exceeds 51,000,000 acres.