NRCS Colorado Table 5--Changes in Land Cover/Use Between 1982 and 1997

Land Cover/Use in 1982

Land Cover/Use in 1997

1982 Total
Cultivated Cropland Noncultivated Cropland Pastureland Rangeland Forest Land Minor Land Urban Built-Up Rural Transp. Small Water Census Water Federal Land CRP Land  

-----------------------1,000 Acres---------------------

Cropland-cultivated 6703.2 352.3 193.9 187.1 0.0 40.9 82.3 7.6 1.8 0.6 11.6 1835.0 9416.3
  (226.3) (40.1) (38.3) (33.4) (0.0) (8.8) (15.6) (2.2) (0.7) (0.6) (1.8) (28.4) (234.5)
Cropland-noncultivated 229.8 699.1 127.5 46.1 1.3 16.0 34.6 1.5 1.7 0.3 24.4 5.5 1187.8
  (28.9) (44.7) (21.3) (12.0) (1.3) (5.0) (8.1) (1.0) (1.1) (0.3) (3.6) (0.9) (62.0)
Pastureland 50.5 98.7 889.5 164.6 4.7 11.5 45.8 1.1 1.5 0.0 7.5 4.6 1280.0
  (15.5) (19.4) (62.9) (36.0) (3.2) (3.9) (10.3) (0.7) (0.8) (0.0) (0.9) (0.2) (74.7)
Rangeland 619.2 36.3 34.4 23089.8 44.3 86.7 160.3 16.6 4.7 3.9 316.3 45.1 24457.6
  (90.4) (11.5) (10.2) (450.1) (15.8) (28.2) (30.6) (3.2) (2.1) (0.5) (10.5) (28.9) (470.1)
Forest land 0.7 2.1 4.2 213.5 3641.3 23.5 64.7 1.9 1.6 1.0 63.0 0.0 4017.5
  (0.7) (2.0) (4.2) (54.5) (265.2) (12.6) (15.0) (0.6) (1.4) (0.4) (10.6) (0.0) (272.6)
Minor land cover/uses 14.6 5.1 1.9 30.9 0.0 981.5 21.9 1.0 4.0 0.0 14.1 0.0 1075.0
  (9.3) (3.6) (1.9) (15.3) (0.0) (99.8) (18.4) (0.9) (2.9) (0.0) (0.1) (0.0) (103.4)
Urban-small and large built-up 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.5 0.0 0.0 769.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 771.3
  (0.0) (0.0) (0.0) (1.5) (0.0) (0.0) (63.8) (0.0) (0.0) (0.0) (0.0) (0.0) (63.8)
 
Rural transportation-roads and railroads 3.7 0.4 0.0 4.6 1.4 0.0 2.7 493.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 506.6
  (1.6) (0.4) (0.0) (2.0) (0.8) (0.0) (0.6) (16.2) (0.0) (0.0) (0.0) (0.0) (16.2)
 
Water-small-streams < 660 feet wide and water bodies < 40 acres 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 153.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 153.8
  (0.0) (0.0) (0.0) (0.0) (0.0) (0.0) (0.0) (0.0) (13.6) (0.0) (0.0) (0.0) (13.6)
 
Water-census-streams >= 660 feet wide and water bodies >= 40 acres 1.0 0.5 0.0 7.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 175.6 0.0 0.0 184.4
  (1.0) (0.5) (0.0) (1.3) (0.0) (0.0) (0.0) (0.0) (0.0) (2.6) (0.0) (0.0) (2.6)
 
Federal land-cover/use not recorded 19.4 23.5 17.5 109.2 35.8 11.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 23356.9 0.0 23574.2
  (4.8) (9.9) (2.1) (3.8) (4.0) (0.5) (0.0) (0.0) (0.0) (0.0) (7.9) (0.0) (2.6)
 
Conservation Reserve Program 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
  (0.0) (0.0) (0.0) (0.0) (0.0) (0.0) (0.0) (0.0) (0.0) (0.0) (0.0) (0.0) (0.0)
 
Total 7642.1 1218.0 1268.9 23854.6 3728.8 1172.0 1182.1 523.5 169.1 181.4 23793.8 1890.2 66624.5
  (228.9) (70.5) (78.8) (455.1) (266.2) (106.5) (76.2) (17.0) (14.2) (2.6) (5.2) (0.6) (476.1)
 
The number at the intersection of rows and columns with the same land cover/use designation represents acres that did not change from 1982 to 1997.  Reading to the right or left of this number are the acres that were converted to other uses in 1997.  Reading up and down from this number are the acres that were converted from other uses in 1982.

NOTES: Total estimates may be adjusted to account for rounding.  The error referred to in the table is the standard error of the estimate.  You can obtain the margin of error at the 95% confidence limit by multiplying the error by 1.96.