Funding for this research was provided by the United States Man and the Biosphere Reserve Program, United States Department of State, and the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Missouri—Columbia.

Cover Photograph of Buffalo National River by Theresa L. Goedeke. Cover Design by Gene Ertel, Theresa L. Goedeke, and J. Sanford Rikoon.

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To contact authors direct correspondence to: Theresa L. Goedeke, Department of Rural Sociology, 5 Sociology Building, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, Telephone (573) 882-7264, E-Mail: c677194@showme.missouri.edu