Our times

With loggers, miners, and farmers aswarm in the Wil West's shrinking wilderness, Americans began to realize that their natural resources were not infinite. The early twentieth ecntury saw the rise of "conservationism" a protoenvironmentalism whose proponents -most notably Theodore Roosevelt were more often hunters seeking to preserve the unspoiled beauty of their playgrounds than believers in animal rights. In 1905, a group of 14 prominetn conservationsits fromed the American Bison Socety,dedicated to the permanent preservation and increase o...