Protections Sought for Rural Areas
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By Nancy Gaarder, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Feb. 19--Nature would be treated with a gentler hand when some of the remaining rural areas of Douglas County are developed, under policies up for approval by the county.
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Farming, labour and consumer associations are calling for national standards to prevent farm workers from being exploited.
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By Carol Demare, Albany Times Union, N.Y. Jun. 18--ALBANY -- A new county law was just what Teri Conroy needed to protect her small llama farm in Altamont.
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By Tony Thornton, The Daily Oklahoman  May 30--PAWHUSKA -- Rancher Dick Surber has trouble pinpointing what troubles him most about an Osage Nation proposal to create and regulate environmental standards for all of Osage County.
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By Stephens Washington Bureau  Stephens Washington Bureau   WASHINGTON - Ranchers would be paid to conserve rangeland vulnerable to wildfires, under a bill Nevada senators introduced on Monday.
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By Wagner, Matthew Kaiser, Ronald; Kreuter, Urs; Wilkins, Neal  ABSTRACT: As nearly all of Texas' rural lands are privately owned, landowner associations for the management of white-tailed deer and ground-water have become increasingly popular.
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By Matt Christensen, The Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho  Feb. 11--JEROME -- For decades, small and large dairy owners have banded together to protect their industry, but those days might be over.
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CONESTOGA, Pa. - To longtime rural residents, it's something they hardly even notice...
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By James Hannah  MARTINSVILLE  --  Tucked away in the den of his 127-year-old farmhouse, Ed Winkle huddles over his computer.   The screen's soft glow lights up his eyeglasses, reflecting messages about tractors, corn hybrids and crop insurance.
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By ERYL CRUMP  WORK to monitor the sea around Wales moves up a gear this summer, as countryside and environment officials try to meet European directives.   The Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) and Environment Agency Wales are starting new joint research projects.
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For more than four decades, Rod Arbuthnot has run his farm in a fashion many conservationists love. He uses rotational grazing on his rangeland. Some 41 acres of native grass strips protect water quality on the streams that flow on the farm. Wildlife areas are left for deer, turkey and prairie chickens.
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KOUTS, Ind.  -- The quiet country life can turn into a pressure cooker of stress at harvest time as farmers push themselves to their limits, agricultural experts say...
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Future generations will not be able to afford to buy rural homes without government action, two bodies warn.
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A swath of Amazon rain forest the size of Alabama was placed under government protection Monday in a region infamous for violent conflicts among loggers, ranchers and environmentalists.
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By Don Gasper  Lawmakers in Congress have an important opportunity right now to permanently protect some of the most special remaining wild places in the Monongahela National Forest. Wild and wonderful West Virginia hasn't had any wilderness areas protected in nearly 25 years.
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Ministers are telling councils in England that, by law, they should not be closing rural schools.
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Better detection and treatment are helping to reduce death from breast cancer in America, but poor, rural and minority women - especially Native Americans - face barriers that keep them from taking advantage of cancer screenings that could potentially