The author of “A Sand County Almanac: With Other Essays on Conservation from Round River” considers wilderness as the beginning of that which humans received. He notes that people used the land to develop businesses and society as a whole. However, Leopold Aldo indicates that the exploitation of wilderness lands will not provide individuals with desirable prosperity (Leopold, 1970). Only the quiet and rational use of land will enable humans to derive permanent benefits from it. The author is convinced that wilderness need not be destroyed entirely due to people’s desire to build resort towns and factories (Leopold, 1970). I agree with the view that only a scientist who appreciates the raw wilderness will be capable of significant entrepreneurial success.
I support the view that chaotic development near wilderness areas in emergencies will have a negative effect on the accessibility to the area. For instance, transforming roads that are supposed to be used only to fight forest fires into public roads would lead to a critical situation (Leopold, 1970). Therefore, not only the wildlife but also the surrounding developments would be threatened. Accordingly, if humans do not understand the value of raw wilderness, they will not be enabled to benefit from its use (Arora, 2018). The author’s primary consideration is that people can quickly destroy raw wilderness. However, they do not have the capacity and resources to restore it (Naugle et al., 2020). Therefore, he asserts, “it is only the scholar who understands why the raw wilderness gives definition and meaning to the human enterprise” (Leopold, 1970, p. 171). I endorse this because the wise use of wilderness resources will permit the continual benefit and not the depletion of the land.
References
Arora, N. K. (2018). Biodiversity conservation for sustainable future. Environmental Sustainability, 1(2), 109-111. Web.
Leopold, A. (1970). A Sand County almanac: With other essays on conservation from Round River. Outdoor Essays & Reflections.
Naugle, D. E., Allred, B. W., Jones, M. O., Twidwell, D., & Maestas, J. D. (2020). Coproducing science to inform working lands: The next frontier in nature conservation. BioScience, 70(1), 90-96. Web.