Ninja,

We all value wilderness or we wouldn't be members of this forum. For anyone that believes Robert Redford and the Nature Conservancy and their plea for "the last wild places", you need to get out more. Take a trip by car through the Northern Rockies or better yet, British Columbia, or Alberta.

We have many people to thank for the conservation movement that really only started around 1900 when the "frontier" disappeared. We can start with Teddy Roosevelt. John Muir, John Burroughs, Aldo Leopold, and Izaak Walton. The list goes on. These people were visionairies that changed the way that people in this country think and feel about undeveloped lands.