Historic rural landscapes

found: Work cat.: U.S. National Park Service. Guidelines for evaluating and documenting rural historic landscapes, 1999:t.p.; p. 7 ("A rural historic landscape is a geographical area that historically has been used by people, or shaped or modified by human activity, occupancy, or intervention, and that possesses a significant concentration, linkage, or continuity of areas of land use, vegetation, buildings and structures, roads and waterways, and natural features")

found: Managing the historic rural landscape, 1999:t.p. ; p. 47 (wider historic rural landscape is dependent upon active land-use practices)

found: Technologies for the preservation of prehistoric & historic landscapes, [1987]:p. 15 (in some areas of West Virginia, wooden bridges, often a part of the historic rural landscape, are the target of arsonists)

found: National Trust for Historic Preservation WWW site, Sept. 12, 2007:/rural heritage ("in high growth areas near cities and resorts, new development is literally consuming the historic rural landscape")