AMH 2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Theodore Roosevelt, Land Ethic, Gilded Age
14 Mar 2018
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A sierra club preservationist who believed wilderness was a part of the us identity and that those areas should be left untouched. The head of the us forestry service under teddy roosevelt. A conservationist who believed in a "land ethic. " Give one criticism each for john muir and gifford pinchot in the hetch hetchy debate. Muir: "what"s the point of wilderness if it can"t be used practically?" Pinchot: "to know where to strike the balance of land ethic means understanding nature. " Preservationist believe that nature should remain untouched while conservationists believe that some of nature needs to be used for practical human needs. Period where people are actively trying to improve society with new idealist policies, advocacy, ideas, etc. The progressive era was a direct response to A short, progressive book that tackled the social problems of unsafe working conditions and unsanitary food practices in slaughterhouses.
