PARADOXICALLY, the movement to save America's surviving wilderness1 is in decline at the very moment that enthusiasm for the environment has reached an all-time high. The truth in this paradox is hard for some of us to face, and is harder yet to explain. But it is time to try to solve the dilemma. Doing so involves taking a clear look at the pattern of what has happened during the last two and a half decades.
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Michael B. McCloskey (1972) studied this question.