This paper considers the background to the formation of the concept of "conservation." It looks at the formation of resource management administrations in the United States in the early 20th century, discussing the impact of this process on the development of the idea of "conservation," as the concept was proposed by those who at the same time exercised influence on resource management policy. The concept of "conservation" was developed by Gifford Pinchot, the central person in the Conservation

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... Movement. Criticism has been made of the developmental history view of environmental ideas in Roderick Nash's concepts of "conservation" and "environmentalism.