{"id":7877,"date":"2015-05-06T06:21:24","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T11:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7877"},"modified":"2015-05-06T06:21:24","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T11:21:24","slug":"the-fifth-wave-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7877","title":{"rendered":"The Fifth Wave (Part I)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/carbonpilgrim.wordpress.com\/2015\/05\/01\/the-fifth-wave-part-i\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Fifth Wave (Part\u00a0I)<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>[Chapter 25 of\u00a0<em>The Age of the Consequences<\/em><\/strong>]<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cAll things alike do their work, and then we see them subside. When they have reached their bloom, each returns to its origin . . . This reversion is an eternal law. To know that law is wisdom.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2014Lao-Tsu<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The First Wave<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the fall of 1909, twenty-two-year-old Aldo Leopold rode away from the ranger station in Springerville, Arizona, on his inaugural assignment with the newly created United States Forest Service. For this Midwesterner, an avid hunter freshly graduated from the prestigious Yale School of Forestry, the mountainous wilderness that stretched out before him must have felt both thrilling and portentous. In fact, events over the ensuing weeks, including his role in the killing of two timber wolves\u2014immortalized nearly forty years later in his essay \u201cThinking Like a Mountain,\u201d from\u00a0<em>A Sand County Almanac<\/em>\u2014would influence Leopold\u2019s lifelong conservation philosophy in important ways. The deep thinking would come later, however. In 1909, Leopold\u2019s primary goal was to be a good forester, which is why he chose to participate in a radical experiment at the time: the control and conservation of natural resources by the federal government.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carbonpilgrim.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/05\/aldo-leopold-with-horse.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-969\" src=\"https:\/\/carbonpilgrim.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/05\/aldo-leopold-with-horse.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"aldo-leopold-with-horse\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Aldo Leopold as a new Forest Service ranger in the Southwest<\/p>\n<p><strong>Beginning in 1783, the policy of the federal government encouraged the disposal of public lands to private citizens and commercial interests including retired soldiers, homesteaders, railroad conglomerates, mining interests, and anyone else willing to fulfill America\u2019s much-trumpeted manifest destiny. However, this policy began to change in 1872, when President Ulysses Grant signed a bill creating the world\u2019s first national park\u2014Yellowstone\u2014launching the U.S. government down a new path: retention and protection of some federal land on behalf of all Americans.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fifth Wave (Part\u00a0I) [Chapter 25 of\u00a0The Age of the Consequences] \u201cAll things alike do their work, and then we see them subside. When they have reached their bloom, each returns to its origin . . . This reversion is an eternal law. To know that law is wisdom.\u201d\u00a0\u2014Lao-Tsu The First Wave In the fall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[156,5207,4553,1684,4312,5208,5209,843],"class_list":["post-7877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-conservation","tag-federalism","tag-forests","tag-national-parks","tag-natural-resources","tag-parks","tag-us-forest-service","tag-us-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7878,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7877\/revisions\/7878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}