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Land Cover
This Illinois Land Cover map was produced in response to a need for
current, detailed information about Illinois land, the raw material of
the state. This land cover
information for twenty-three identified categories is essential to ensure
wise land-use decisions
and good land stewardship. The satellite image data used to construct
the map, collected in
1999 and 2000, revealed that more than 76% of Illinois land is devoted
to agriculture, primarily
corn and soybeans, followed by forested lands (12%), urban and built-up
lands (6%), wetlands
(4%), and surface water (12%). For more information, please go to: http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/
and http://www.agr.state.il.us/gis/
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