Just read this article… found on Ralph Maughan’s Wildlife news
It goes along with the whole ‘working’ thing… in that I say, I think it’s about time we give the land a rest.
http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/working_wilderness_and_other_code_words/C205/L38/
Thanks for sharing that, fenris.
For some the term working wilderness not only puts a positive spin on old fashion human manipulation and exploitation, but it by default also implies a negative view of wildlands. Such “self willed†lands that are not grazed by cows are somehow vast tracts of shiftless, lazy and presumably unemployed lands that do nothing worthwhile at all.
That sounds like the same arguments that the European invaders used as a reason to kick the natives out of their ancestral lands.