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10 In Wilderness and the American Mind, Roderick Nash emphasizes the impact of Gifford Pinchot and Theodore Roosevelt who took the spirit of Muir and began shifting it to active policy initiatives. 11 While Nash is careful to draw out the culture and spirit of early environmentalism, Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency by Samuel P. Hays emphasizes the political dimension of these developments. Hays accuses historians who have linked conservation directly to progressive ideology of concentrating “.
His bureaucratic nature gained added emphasis when he was suddenly struck incapable of continuing many portions of his relationship with the natural environment. More than any public figure, FDR’s political role increased the proximity of the American people to the natural environment and the understanding of its complex, scientific dynamics. These complexities helped to define New Deal patterns of natural resource management. 69 This version, of course, included the integration of human solutions—technology—into the natural The Complex Environmentalist 37 environment in order to engineer its use.
On incidents which easily fit that viewpoint” and avoiding problems of other issues that fit less well. Hays’s seminal study guides historians to look at conservation as a systematic intellectual shift. 13 The vast majority of early environmental thinkers were active on the land in one fashion or another. While Gifford Pinchot and Theodore Roosevelt (TR) first connected environmental concern to regulative policies, neither required that the persona of the “environmental ideal” lose its vitality of one-on-one experience with nature.