Wilderness and Wildlife Conservation
From the category archives:
Dave Foreman’s Around the Campfire Issue 20
Excerpt…
Shortly after the end of World War Two, visionary conservationists and scientists such as Fairfield Osborn began to warn that continued human population growth would cause all kinds of problems including heightened plundering of wild Nature. It was not until the late 1960s, however, that population growth moved [...]
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The Angry West: ‘Get Off Our Backs, Uncle Sam.’
—Newsweek cover, 1979
Beginning with this Newsweek cover story in 1979 (complete with a clench-jawed Marlboro Man on horseback),1 ill-informed East Coast journalists began to peddle the carefully fermented whine of the Western economic elite that “The West†was dead set against conservation and public lands.
Of all the [...]
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We have seen a rising tide of hysteria in the last few years over the recovery of gray wolves in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming and over the Mexican wolf (lobo) in Arizona and New Mexico. Wolf-haters are using any argument, plausible or not, to demand the second extinction of wolves in the wild.
The most [...]
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“There has been a boatload of changes during the past thirty years in the conservation, environmental, and resource movements. Perhaps the most remarkable and deep-rooted shift is that worry and doggedness about explosive human population growth, which was central to all three in the 1960s and 1970s, today is kicked into the corner and shunned [...]
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“In the last few issues of “Around the Campfire,†I’ve contrasted the values and policies of resourcism and conservation. Some scholars and agency representatives think I make overmuch of these differences and that I do not give adequate credit to the resourcist movement and resource agencies like the United States Forest Service for America’s conservation [...]
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