Environmental Issues

Conservation vs. Preservation

Defined conservation as the wise use or planned development of areas areas. In this case, the preservation of nature is only intended to be saved in order to meet mans utilitarian needs such as recreation or building dams to supply power. The main advocate of this ideology was Gifford Pinchot.

Preservations on the other hand rejected the utilitarianism use of land for mans needs. What they proposed, land should be preserved to protect nature to save its scenic value. This ideology was defended by John Muir, who help launched the environmental movement by increasing the awareness of the dangers of destroying natural areas. What he did was mobilize the number of people to fight the dam proposal in the Hetch Hetchy Valley (Yosemite National Park).

Battle Ground

Hetch Hetchy Valley (Yosemite National Park)

Information Gathered from Wilderness and the American Mind, Roderick Nash, 1982 Yale University.

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