![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How can we suburbanites reconcile our ideals with our everyday lives? Is there a middle way? But even as we practice “leaving no trace,” we still come down off the mountain to dwell in houses and apartments crowded together, drive cars on roads to get to work or school, and live immersed in an industrial culture. Humans, too, need the backcountry to replenish our spirits-even if we never go there but just know it exists and persists for its own sake. Grizzlies, Marbled Murrelets, Spotted Owls and the like depend on large, untouched swaths of intact habitat to survive and reproduce. Ever since the days of John Muir, conservationists’ efforts have focused on saving as much wilderness as possible, cordoning off tracts of land from our traffic-congested cities, stopping clear-cut logging practices and our garbage strewing ways. ![]()
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