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Rural System? Just Dreaming …
A For-Profit Conglomerate for Meaningful Jobs
Healthful Communities
and Improved Natural Resource Management

by Robert H. Giles, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
2007

I am indebted to and appreciate so many authors, teachers from the pages of books, and living teachers over so many years for the ideas (and the work behind them) decribed in this book. I have tried to cite known specific contributions and have omitted sources of ideas that have united over time with me and for which I could not recall a single source. I continue to thank such contributors for I know the costs to you and how valuable you have been to me. I am truly sorry for omissions and oversights. R.H. Giles

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