Europe’s rural landscapes have been shaped by the long-lasting systems integrating husbandry with local ecologies. In Polish Subcarpathia, such a farming model survived until the early 1990s. The subsequent socio-economic changes caused its large-scale decline and, locally, countryside urbanisation. The urbanization effect on recognition of the importance of traditional farming for conservation values was investigated in the fast-growing SE Polish city. The data was collected with an internet survey addressed to the city inhabitants. The collected information included both respondents’ characteristics and their opinions on conservation and farming issues. Subjective declarations and assessments were compared with the surveyees’ evaluation of four photo-elicited alternative management/conservation scenarios of the city’s popular urban, recent forest, incorrectly reknowned as a “remnant of ancient forest”. The recorded strong affinity and positive attitude to traditional farmland expressed by respondents was poorly aligned with their dominat conservation awareness, reflecting the appeal of “pure wilderness” (the most preferred scenario) typical for city dwellers and to global environmental concerns, rather than reflecting personal experience and observation. The positive association of the restored original wood-pasture scenario (the second most favoured of the four) with a declared attachment to traditional husbandry and concern about urban sprawl demonstrated that choice being consistent with inherited, though already blurred, rural family experience. Globalised environmental discourse, replacing traditional ecological knowledge, can turn a dangerous competitor to local conservation issues, such as the decline of traditional farmland’s bio-cultural legacy.

欧洲的乡村景观是由将畜牧业与当地生态融为一体的持久体系所塑造的。在波兰的喀尔巴阡山脉，这种耕种模式一直存在到1990年代初。随后的社会经济变化导致其大规模下降，并在当地引起农村城市化。在快速发展的东南波兰城市，研究了城市化对认识到传统农业对保护价值的重要性的影响。数据是通过针对城市居民的互联网调查收集的。收集的信息包括受访者的特征以及他们对保护和农业问题的看法。将主观声明和评估与被调查者对城市热门城市中四种照片引发的替代管理/保护方案的评估进行了比较，最近的森林，被错误地称为“古代森林的遗迹”。受访者对传统农田的强烈亲和力和积极态度与他们的支配保护意识不一致，反映出城市居民典型的“纯净荒野”（最可取的情景）和全球环境问题的吸引力，而不是反映个人经验和观察。恢复后的原始木牧草场景（在这四个中第二受欢迎）的积极关联与对传统牧业的依恋和对城市扩张的担忧表明，这种选择与继承但已经模糊的农村家庭经历是一致的。全球化的环境话语，取代了传统的生态知识，