Are there rural %26quot;tree huggers%26quot;? All the environmentalists I%26#039;ve ever met are office workers, or were raised in the suburbs. I really don%26#039;t know any %26quot;tree hugger%26quot; types who are actually of the land. Do they even exist?

Secondly, Almost every self sustaining homestead is out in a rural area.
http://www.earthship.net/

Thirdly, the small local farmers that are left and that haven%26#039;t been forced out of their land by big agribusiness are all inherently environmental.
http://www.localharvest.org/

Fourthly, think about all the hippy communes. All out in the country.
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You best be believing there are! I grew up in rural Oregon - I%26#039;m what you%26#039;d call a %26quot;redneck environmentalist.%26quot; I drink Coors Light or whatever is cheap and palatable, I go with my buddies on hunting/camping trips -they shoot, I don%26#039;t. I own a mid-size SUV (but bike to work). I camp and burn deadfall (clear the fire hazard before summer)... I fish (catch and release, sometimes eat) and I play and watch Football fanatically.

There is a strong link between the hunter, sports fisherman and the environmentalist. People in the outdoors tend to value the preserving natural habitats.

Dismiss those silly stereotypes those others are throwing out there! 0% 0 Votes

We farm people rarely choose to use a non-complementary term like tree-hugger to describe ourselves.

Some of us even cut down trees to give other trees room to grow, and to heat the house.
Many of us are passionate about avoiding soil erosion and compaction.

Many of us use a minimum of fuel to do our farming.

We will kill animals to eat them. Even to prevent their overgrazing the range.
So our tree hugging friends in the cities will have nothing to do with us. Favor returned. 0% 0 Votes

You really poison the well when you lead off with a derogatory name and then ask for a show of hands. By the way, how many bigoted Fascists do we have in Yahoo answers? Enough to screw in a lightbulb? A CFL, or a nice 1000 watt incandescent? See how that works? Lets count how many we get... 0% 0 Votes

If they live in a rural area they don%26#039;t have to do much to protect the environment around them, unlike those who live in cities or the suburbs. 0% 0 Votes

No, not really. There are some tree huggers that were raised in cities and moved to rural areas though. 0% 0 Votes

yes they fight against buildings going up all the time. 0% 0 Votes

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