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Rural Americans matter—a lot—to the fate of U.S. environmental policy. Not only do farmers, ranchers, and forest owners manage huge portions of American lands and watersheds, but rural voters also have an outsized impact on national policy. While rural Americans express support for natural resource conservation, they and their elected officials often voice less support for existing federal environmental policies and laws. Why?  In this talk, Robert Bonnie will discuss polling, focus group and stakeholder research he and colleagues at Duke University undertook to answer that question.