In South Florida, traditionally the country's dominant lime region, two catastrophes, Hurricane Andrew in 1992 and the destruction of citrus trees since 1995 to eradicate canker disease, devastated the state's acreage, which fell to less than 200 acres from 6,700.
State managed acreage accounts for 68 percent of the total area and includes Leonard Harrison and Colton Point State Parks and the surrounding Tioga State Forest lands.
In Wisconsin, 50,000 acres may be affected, and in New Jersey, up to 5% of the state's acreage is estimated to be impacted by the historical use of arsenical pesticides.
Ms. Wasserman said: "People don't realize that they have all that state-owned acreage in open space.
According to Michigan's department of agriculture, Sanilac leads the state in the acreage devoted to soy, corn, wheat, dairy farms and general cattle operations.
The federal government deeded millions of acres of swampland to states along the river, and the states sold the acreage to pay for the levees.
The wording would let the Palestinians contend that what is envisaged is a Palestinian state recovering the equivalent acreage conquered by Israel in 1967.
He shrugs at the fact that the free enterprise system has virtually disappeared from the farm economy of Montana, the nation's No. 2 farm state by amount of acreage.
California, for instance, shares responsibility with the Forest Service for maintaining public lands, but state, federal and private acreage are intertwined throughout the state.
The Red Hill Bay project, funded largely by the state, will "reflood" the acreage by diverting, in part, water from the nearby Alamo River.
