Wilderness and Wildlife Conservation
From the category archives:
The last year has been a hard one from the overlook of losing friends and leaders. Among them have been demigods such as John Seiberling, the Ohio congressman who was a peerless champion for Alaska, wilderness areas, and overall conservation back in the 1970s and 1980s. I think that others would agree with me that [...]
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The first burst of roadless areas as a national forest issue in 1971 made me a conservationist. Today, national forest roadless areas are part of the daily meat-and-potatoes for the conservationist, and it has been so for at least a generation of wilderness lovers. Only a handful of still-working conservationists remember the days before roadless [...]
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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 [...]
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Since the late 1980s, a surprisingly large chunk of the anticonservation movement has been caught up in a frenzy of paranoid conspiracy theories. I think conspiracy theories have been a tendency in human nature, probably as far back as we can uncover, but it has only been in the last two decades or so that conspiracy madness has shown its muscle [...]
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Oh, woe is the conservationist who tries to talk sense to the wolf-haters, climate change-deniers, DDT-lovers, and others of their ilk. Science, facts, and reason wilt as lances against the brick wall of populist anti-intellectualism. In fact, being handy with scientific facts and concepts about conservation issues can even be a handicap because some folks will label you as an intellectual [...]
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