Rural communities are the base and source of the food and fiber products that are used today.
As a nation, America has managed to kill off game, destroy timber, overgraze grasslands, mined the soil, and allowing fertile topsoil to wash away. With the ever-growing population, changes needed to be made. People started figuring out that the land could not survive at the rate it was being destroyed. Proper caring for forests and streams, along with utilizing fields, preserving rangeland was essential. If destroying the land did not stop, the future of the human race was on a downhill slope.