TY - JOUR T1 - Science and stewardship in a nonmonolithic conservation movement: Facilitating positive change JF - Journal of Soil and Water Conservation SP - 142A LP - 146A DO - 10.2489/jswc.63.5.142A VL - 63 IS - 5 AU - Mark Anderson-Wilk Y1 - 2008/09/01 UR - http://www.jswconline.org/content/63/5/142A.abstract N2 - Conservation has a long history of bringing together diverse interests around a common cause. But “the conservation movement” is, of course, neither singular in what is to be conserved nor in the philosophical principles underpinning it. Here I attempt to explore some of the variations in conservation ethics that have made the conservation movement complex, compelling, and challenging to those involved. UNITED AND DIVIDED IN CONSERVATION One of the long-existing philosophical tensions within the conservation movement has been between a preservationist strain (with the objective of protecting resources, habitats, and species for their own sake) and a “use but use sustainably” strain (with the objective of conserving natural resources so that humans can continue to use them productively into the future). Such philosophical contrasts existed over a century ago as personified by John Muir and Gifford Pinchot. A number of environmental historians and philosophers (e.g., Miller 1991; Norton 1991; Katz 1996) have described the friendship and philosophical parting of ways between Muir and Pinchot. Muir founded the Sierra Club and is well known for his writings on wilderness preservation and for advocating the establishment of national parks. Pinchot was the first chief of the US Forest Service, … ER -