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Welcome to Connecticut's Changing Landscape

Connecticut’s Changing Landscape provides basic land cover information about changes to developed, forest and agricultural lands during the period 1985 to 2006. Five directly comparable land cover datasets, from 1985, 1990, 1995, 2002 and 2006, allow us to look at, and quantify, landscape change in our state.

Each website below contains statewide information, town maps and tables and watershed maps and tables.

	Land Cover (you're here!) How much have we developed, and at what rate? Use the lefthand navigation to find out more about the Land Cover portion of the project.
	Forest Fragmentation Results of the Forest Fragmentation tool where forested land is divided into categories, such as core forest and edge forest.
	Riparian Corridors Land cover and land cover change withing the Riparian, or streamside, areas of Connecticut.
	Agricultural Lands over Agricultural Soils An analysis of the status and trends of agricultural fields in Connecticut, and how they relate to the statewide data on agricultural soils of importance.
	Long Island Sound Basin (CT and NY only) This website provides maps, statistics, and other information related to landscape change in the lower drainage basin of the Long Island Sound for the 25-year period from 1985 to 2010.