This story is a collaboration among Sierra, the magazine of the Sierra Club, WWNO and the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk, an independent reporting network based at the University of Missouri.

Rockmart, Georgia — It started with a handful of frustrated hunters and 20 deer imported from South Carolina. Today, a burgeoning wildlife corridor stretches from Atlanta’s western suburbs to the ...

This is the third article in a series of stories and interviews in which we ask rural organizers, elected office holders and political strategists what lessons are to be learned from the 2024 General ...

This is the second article in a series of stories and interviews in which we ask rural organizers, elected office holders and political strategists what lessons are to be learned from the 2024 General ...

The following is the first installment of “Reimagining Rural Cartographies,” a new Barn Raiser series exploring innovative and nontraditional forms of mapping. It is guest-edited by Lydia Moran and ...

Rural candidates, elected officials, political consultants and organizers discuss the results of the 2024 election, analyze what it means for rural communities and explain how that knowledge should ...

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Rev. Dr. Judy Kincaid serves as a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. A featured preacher on the website, “A Sermon for Every Sunday,” Judy received her bachelor’s degree in ...

The rural vote is vital on November 5. Even a small shift in the electoral margins of rural counties could determine the outcome of the presidential election in battleground states. Down ballot, the ...