Natural resource agencies, including the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and Natural Resources Conservation Service, should work together to bolster natural resource-based opportunities as part of regional sustainable community development efforts. Greater federal interagency cooperation is needed to help communities understand and incorporate opportunities to conserve and protect natural resources and ecosystems which are often decoupled from community and economic development strategies. These efforts should encompass both rural and urban areas. Although natural resources and the land base are viewed as rural, many jobs and processes that use these resources as raw materials are located in urban areas. Agencies should organize their collective enterprise development efforts; they should especially help expand the work of the Joint Center for Sustainable Communities with cities and counties nationwide on natural resource-based enterprise development. This work can help strengthen the linkages between rural and urban America and reinforce the connections between the environment and economic development.