If you want to see where this comes from, I'd recommend reading a Teddy Roosevelt biography (e.g. Morris). He became one of the first powerful conservationists

If you want to see where this comes from, I'd recommend reading a Teddy Roosevelt biography (e.g. Morris). He became one of the first powerful conservationists because he saw, in just a few decades, the impact that development was having on the West. Inside almost every hunter or fisherman, there's a desire to see someone else enjoy it as much as you. And that can't happen if one leaves the land poorer after they use it.