@article{Conservation:334673,
      recid = {334673},
      author = {Natural Resources Conservation Service},
      title = {Land Resource Regions and Major Land Resource Areas of the  United States, the Caribbean, and the Pacific Basin},
      address = {2022-05},
      number = {1962-2023-670},
      series = {Agriculture Handbook 296 (Revised and Updated)},
      pages = {660},
      year = {2022},
      abstract = {Excerpts from the report Introduction:  United States  Department of Agriculture Handbook 296 is a broadscale  synthesis of current knowledge about land areas based on  patterns of physiography, geology, climate, water  resources, soils, biological resources, and land use.   These patterns were used to establish the unique central  concept and boundaries for each land resource region (LRR)  and major land resource area (MLRA).  This handbook is  designed primarily for use in developing soil and water  conservation programs at the continental scale (using the  LRR concept) and the inter-State scale (using the MLRA  concept).  The three previous editions of Agriculture  Handbook 296 were published in 1965, 1981, and 2006.  This  update of Agriculture Handbook 296 was driven by the need  to improve the usability of the land resource hierarchy  system so that a more consistent application of  soil-ecological-landscape concepts could provide more  accurate and efficient application of conservation on the  ground.  It involved innovations to the current system  through incorporation of updated climate, elevation, soil,  and land use data and improvement in linework accuracy  based on advances in remote sensing and geographic  information systems (GIS).},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/334673},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.334673},
}