The 5,000-acre ranch had already lost approximately 1,000 acres to fire on September 4 and 5.

When they were over, China had lost more than three million acres of timber.

Instead he said, "We've lost three thousand acres already, but if it gets away from us here! "

The state loses nearly 50 acres a day to development.

"We're losing four acres a minute; were not talking about the Amazon here."

New Jersey has lost more than a million acres of farmland to housing and commercial development over the past 40 years.

The organization estimates that the state loses 18,000 acres a year to development.

In the last five years, the state had lost 609 acres of wetlands to development.

Colorado, by contrast, is losing nearly 50,000 acres a year.

The nation still is losing some 500,000 acres a year of these systems.