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Category: Conservation Challenges

What limits – if any – will the next administration seek?

By Jeremy Beck

Immigration adds 3.5 million people to the U.S. every year (roughly the city of Los Angeles). Sustainable immigration requires: Reducing legal immigration and Stopping illegal immigration. What limits – if any – will the next administration seek? Population Clock NumbersUSA Immigration Clock Since midnight, immigration (legal and illegal) has added this many people today. The Biden administration removed the guardrails at the border. Illegal immigration spiked from all over … Continued

Overcrowded National Parks

By Henry Barbaro

The number of visitors oftentimes exceeds the carrying capacity of the trails and surrounding vegetation while diminishing the enjoyment of the visitors themselves. The days of securing big tracts of untrammeled and densely vegetated upland for national parks, like Yellowstone and Yosemite, are fading away.

The signs are clear. Ecological overshoot is here.

By Rob Harding

Many thanks to my friend Karen Shragg, naturalist and gifted writer, for her meditation on Earth Overshoot. Shragg writes: “As our traffic jams and homelessness increase while our open land for wildlife is doing a deep dive it is time to consider the harsh reality that our country may be expansive, but it is not … Continued

America’s immigration-driven population growth worsens desertification.

By Henry Barbaro

Almost a third of land in America is affected by desertification, the process by which fertile land becomes desert.

Nevada’s explosive population growth fuels urban sprawl

By Henry Barbaro

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%).

Greater Yellowstone sprawl study: notes from the field

By Rob Harding

Last month, Scientific Director Leon Kolankiewicz visited the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) as part of NumbersUSA’s forthcoming study on the threat posed by urban sprawl to this still-wild region often described as the American Serengeti. A few dispatches from Leon and others are shared in this post, offering a glimpse into the experience and the … Continued

Slow the Californication of Idaho: reduce immigration

By Rob Harding

Idaho’s population has grown faster than any other state’s in the past decade. Since 1980, it has doubled, from 940,000 to over 1.9 million today, and this explosive growth is set to continue. By 2060, Idaho is on track to have a population of 2.7 million. Idaho’s population has grown so much because America’s population … Continued

“Love Hurts,” a NumbersUSA report about the loss of rural land and habitat in North Carolina

By Jeremy Beck

Our North Carolina report continues the secondary-migration theme of our Idaho study. Americans are leaving states with high immigration-driven population growth.

As immigration climbs, America’s biodiversity crisis worsens.

By Henry Barbaro

Among the main reasons for biodiversity loss are invasive species, pesticides, over-hunting, and pollution.  But nothing compares to the clear-cutting, burning, damming, draining, and/or bulldozing of natural habitat to make way for expanding human populations.  This includes the fragmentation and disconnection of entire wildlife ecosystems, where animals can no longer move between larger habitat areas.