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 "Do you come down here a lot?" "Every day, if my mom lets me," the young boy, perhaps eight, whispered, conscious of the grown-ups behind him, on the other side of the tree. [more]
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 Casper Kohler's reasons for keeping his 100-acre farm intract run deeper than money. So deep that he struggles to explain why he feels his land must never be developed. [more]
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 Margaret Hull stands strong and tall like the trees she takes for timber. Her bronze arms are strung with muscle from daily farm labor. [more]
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 James Taylor wakes at 4 a.m., crosses his street of tidy row homes, and opens the gate to Glenwood Green Acres. Four acres of green purpose meet his pale gray eyes. [more]
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 Eeeeekkk! What's that sound? I look around in the dark. My hard hat cracks against the rocks above me, and my dim miner's light flickers across the cave walls. [more]
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 A convergence of glaciers 14,000 years ago gave Muddy Creek its hills and valleys. Industry gave it its scars. A meeting of minds in the 1950s transformed the land yet again. [more]
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 In the 1970s, when Tony Markunas bought a piece of Montandon Marsh, he didn't see the wetland. He didn't even know what a wetland really was. [more]
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 Like Lancaster County's quilts, the Tucquan Glen Nature Preserve is a work of art comprised of many pieces. [more]
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 The Dead Man's Hollow Wildlife Preserve-400 acres of protected forest and stream-provides peace and quiet to its visitors. Factories, strip malls, roads and traffic seem a world away. [more]
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 For Mary Swann, the real country has more grit than a spaghetti western. Moving out to the boonies in 1968 came with dirt, hard work and wide-open spaces. [more]
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 The Landis family farm in Lancaster County will remain open. No houses will ever sprout here; only crops, just like they have for more than 100 years. [more]
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 One by one, the fieldsand farms of Ellen Lea's childhood are disappearing. "When we were children, my mother would point out places and say, 'this used to be a field and that one a farm..." [more]
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 When Denise and Greg Bayley sit in their backyard, they are surrounded with quiet and a 50-acre apple orchard. [more]
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 No artist could have painted a bluer sky or poofier clouds the day Carol Witzemen stood on Blue Mountain. Under that perfect sky, the Witmer estate was being sold. [more]
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 On spring days, the Tannersville Cranberry Bog belongs to fourth-graders. In the bog they see their lessons come alive. They touch plants in the dense foliage that they only knew from pictures and words. [more]
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 Fieldstone buildings grace the rolling farmland of Worcester Township, Montgomery County. Two hundred year old white stucco farmhouses line winding roads, shaded by towering oaks. [more]
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 It's hard to call anyone in a township of 34 a trespasser. That just wouldn't be polite. Folks in rural Pottersdale took the freedom to roam. [more]
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 Near the very banks where George Washington launched his nation-defining attack, an 80,000-square-foot shopping plaza was planned. [more]
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