Projects like wolf recovery were about restoring ecosystems on a grand scale, not, as he now told the court, creating “postage stamp replicas of a world long gone.”
Aldo Leopold’s land ethic, how environmental decisions driven by economics are short sighted, regardless of the form it comes in. Eco-tourism and hunting exist as economic holds on the country, but do not justify environmental action in and of themselves and thus environmental sanctity should be regarded above all else
