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Nevada’s explosive population growth fuels urban sprawl

In a new poll taken by Rasmussen Reports and NumbersUSA, 82% of Nevada’s residents said they wanted the population to grow much more slowly (40%) or not at all (42%).

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Nevada Sprawl Report Coverage

Media coverage of NumbersUSA’s report on sprawl in the fastest growth state: Nevada.

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EarthX 2024: Conservation efforts overwhelmed by immigration and sprawl

Immigration-driven population growth is constraining the movements of wildlife, especially for large mammals like wolves which require room to roam. Projected future growth under current federal immigration policy is likely to cause more human-wildlife conflicts.

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Idaho Sprawl Study Coverage

“Idahoans want less, not more, population growth,” by Leon Kolankiewicz, Idaho State Journal

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NumbersUSA sprawl studies: citations in scholarly literature

NumbersUSA's sprawl studies have, for more than two decades, explored the role of population growth in each county in each state and the role of a multiplicity of decisions by government, business, and individuals that increase the average amount of developed land for each person in each county. Our sprawl studies have been cited in scholarly literature over a hundred times in over a dozen languages.

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EarthX 2019: Having Necessary Conversations about Population Growth, Sprawl, and Vanishing Open Spaces

It was my first year joining the NumbersUSA team at Fair Park in Dallas, TX for the annual EarthX event! In general, it was fun and rewarding to be able to share important information with our booth visitors about the impacts of urban sprawl and population growth, both locally and nationally. Most passersby agreed that … Continued

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California, We Hate to Say We Told You So, But …

If federal immigration policies driving national population growth continue, California's environment and residents' quality of life will pay an ever higher price. There can be no sustainability in a context of ever growing human populations.

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End Mass Immigration Policies in 2026

The border is secure and illegal migration is down. So, do we still need to be concerned about immigration? The answer is an emphatic yes.

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An Overcrowded Nation Under Strain: A Year-end Roundup of U.S. Environmental News

Overall environmental conditions in the United States deteriorated in 2025, as the nation continued to add more people to already overburdened ecosystems. As the U.S. population reaches 345 million, the country's environmental problems increasingly reflect a basic mismatch between human numbers and ecological capacity.

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