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Date March 12, 2024

America’s overshoot is magnified by mass immigration

Americans have grown increasingly efficient with our use of resources (i.e., our per capita ecological footprint). But we haven’t grown more sustainable  -- that is, the U.S. ecological deficit (gap between footprint and biocapacity) has increased -- because the amount of natural resources (i.e., our biocapacity) per person has also declined. Why? In part because we have converted them into urbanized areas to accommodate immigration-driven population growth.

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Date March 12, 2024

Conservation Candidates’ Immigration Challenge

Candidates who emphasize habitat and wildlife conservation have an edge in these Western states. But to fulfill campaign promises, conservation candidates will have to address immigration policy.

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Date March 5, 2024

Less immigration would save habitat; wildlife

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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Date February 26, 2024

Prevent the Californication of Idaho: Reduce Immigration

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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Date February 20, 2024

America’s farmers, ranchers, and producers don’t want the consequences of immigration-driven population growth

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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Date February 16, 2024

Idaho Sprawl Study Coverage

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

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Date February 6, 2024

How America’s immigration surge is linked to wetlands loss

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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Date January 25, 2024

Immigration and the 54th Anniversary of NEPA

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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Date January 24, 2024

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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