North Carolina has lost 300,000 acres of family farms, forests, stream banks and wildlife areas to development since 2005.
That's according to a report issued by Land for Tomorrow, which is asking for $200 million in state funding in each of the next five years for land and water conservation.
The report says that the cost of land has risen almost 300 percent in the last 10 years, while the miles of streams that do not meet water quality standards has gone from 3,000 to 3,300 since 2005.
The state is only halfway towards its 1999 goal of protecting a million acres of land by 2009. (AC-T)
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