Erik Schultz’s piece about his tragic fall, which left him a paraplegic and unable to savor the wilderness, makes a (HCN, 12/12/05: Wheelchairs and wilderness can coexist). Why? If it’s a choice between personal satisfaction and wilderness protection, we must choose wilderness. Bob Marshall, Ed Abbey, Aldo Leopold — all considered mechanization of wild nature […]
David Tillotson
Posted inApril 12, 2004: The One-Party West
Invasion of the issue snatchers
One reason the conservation movement has not been able to get much traction over the years, especially among Republicans, is that it was invaded, starting back in the ’60s, by what one could call the “Issue Snatchers.” Most of these Issue Snatchers were chartreuse green. They had other fish to fry, agendas that came from […]