PROGRAMMING AREAS
Balanced Use of Natural Resources
The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development
The Pennsylvania State University
7 Armsby Building, University Park PA 16802-5602
814/863-4656(phone); 814/863-0586(fax)
Please send questions and comments to:
nercrd@psu.edu
Land Use in the Northeast US:
Ten Things Members of Every Rural
Community Need to Know About Land Use...
Generally speaking, the nation's food supply is at this time not under threat from land conversion to new housing development. Even so, the production of certain niche products in some metro areas is increasingly at risk (Heimlich and Anderson, USDA).
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