Wilderness Protection Recap

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Wilderness Protection Recap
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Timelines

• Important Protections
• Forest Policies
• NGOs emerge
• Important landscape architects

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1890 1906 Early American Conservation
Important Protections
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www.rootsweb.com
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www.acad.polyu.edu.hk
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1890 1906 Early American Conservation
Important Protections
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1890 1906 Early American Conservation Forest
Policy
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1890 1906 Early American Conservation NGOs
emerge
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1890 1906 Early American Conservation
Landscape Architects
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The Battle for Hetch Hetchy 1882 - 1913
Preservation vs. Utilitarian Conservation John
Muir vs. Gifford Pinchot
hetchhetchy.org
sierranevadaphotos.com
hetchhetchy.org
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Restore Hetch Hetchy Press Release

• (July 19, 2006)The Schwarzenegger
  Administrations new report confirms earlier
  conclusions by Restore Hetch Hetchy and others
  that restoration of Hetch Hetchy Valley in
  Yosemite National Park is feasible and practical,
  and can be achieved with no harm to San Francisco
  Bay Area water and power users and Central Valley
  irrigation districts.

Somewhere, John Muir smiled today
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"...to promote and regulate the use of
the...national parkswhich purpose is to conserve
the scenery and the natural and historic objects
and the wild life therein and to provide for the
enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such
means as will leave them unimpaired for the
enjoyment of future generations."
National Park Service Act 1916
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Limitation of Utilitarian/Preservationist
Discourse

• Most applicable in extreme cases
• Oversimplification
• Limited to US
• Glosses over basic historic connections
• Almost automatically opposes active development
  of use of resources
• Reinforces human/nature alienation

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The Remarkable Insight of Aldo Leopold
Conservation is a protest against destructive
land use. It seeks to preserve both the utility
and beauty of the landscape. 1935 Land
Pathology Conservation is a state of harmony
between men and land 1949 The Land Ethic