The most direct and fundamental way to resolve America’s decline in biodiversity is to gradually bring down our high levels of immigration. Habitat loss cannot be stopped as long as immigration (legal and illegal) continues to add roughly three and a half million people every year.

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Idaho is the fastest growing state by rate. Gem State residents don’t want more unchecked growth, according to new polling data.

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The consequences of our expanding population encroaching on America's farm and ranch strongholds were on the minds of many attendees at the 2024 American Farm Bureau Convention.

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

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Legal and illegal immigration now amount to the rough equivalent of a new Los Angeles every year - a factor in the loss of 60,000 acres of wetlands every year.

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The month of January marks the 54th anniversary of when the modern environmental movement started. In the 1970s major environmental protection initiatives became law starting with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which requires that all federal agencies evaluate the environmental impacts of their actions.

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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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America's intact landscapes comprise 50% or more of the country. We have far more wilderness than most nations. A better immigration policy would go a long way toward protecting this rich resource and heritage.

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Last week, NumbersUSA sent a team to the Texas State Fair grounds in Dallas, TX, site of the largest Earth Day exposition in the world, EarthX. We presented our new study on Texas sprawl, and shared our exhibit with over a fifteen hundred people, most of whom were not surprised to learn that Texas has … Continued

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