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SOUTHEASTERN GEOGRAPHER
Volume 55, Issue 3, Pages 338-361Publisher
ASSOC AMER GEOGRAPHERS
DOI: 10.1353/sgo.2015.0017
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Piedmont; land use land cover change; cyclic forestry; urbanization
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The southern Piedmont in the U.S. was an important farming region during the 19th century, but by the end of the 20th century, agricultural land use had decreased substantially with forest becoming the majority land cover by the 1970s. Geographical literature has documented this change but has not concentrated on the region's contemporary land uses. The Piedmont currently has three main types of land use and land cover changes: cyclic forestry, changes between forest and agriculture, and urbanization. The first and second groupings are reversible and land uses and land covers can change among them, but urbanization is normally a permanent change that increases in area through time. U.S. Geological - Survey findings indicate that cyclic forestry of cutting (clearing) and regrowth dominated - recent land change in the Piedmont. This paper explores the Piedmont's current land uses and some of their driving forces.
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