Differentiate the preservation ethic from the conservation ethic. Explain the contributions of John Muir and Gifford Pinchot in the history of environmental ethics.

Preservation ethic is protecting our environment in an unaltered state while Conservation ethic says put natural resources to use but that we have a responsibility to manage them wisely.

John Muir argued that nature deserved protection for its own value

Gifford Pinchot founded what would have become the U.S. Forest Service.

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