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Aldo Leopold was a second great influence on the American <br />West and its land and water. His book, Game Management, <br />published in 1942, permanently altered the course of wildlife <br />management: he proved that to manage wildlife, you don't manage <br />animals, you manage habitat. He explained, in vivid words that <br />remain at the core of resource management and development today, <br />that Darwin was too limited because he tended to focus on each <br />individual species. As Leopold put it, we must think on a plane <br />perpendicular to Darwin. Leopold also believed, as did Muir, <br />that we must strive toward a greater understanding of the being <br />of natural systems. Leopold urged all of us to "think like a <br />mountain." <br />Bernard DeVoto, a native Utahan, sent out his vision of the <br />West to all of the nation from his Easy Chair column in Harpers <br />magazine. In the late 1940's and early 1950's, DeVoto lashed out <br />against the subsidies and the give-away of federal lands. He <br />called them land grabs and held up the soid side of federal <br />land policy for all to see. <br />Rachel Carson, who wrote Silent Spring in 1962, is thought <br />of as our greatest advocate against pollution. She was that, but <br />she was also much more. The heart of Carson's message cut to the <br />quick of all natural resource policy in the West. She decried <br />the essential arrogance of humanity: "The 'control of nature' is <br />a phrase . . . borne of the Neanderthal Age of biology and philo- <br />sophy, when it was assumed that nature exists for the convenience <br />of man." <br />-7-