Open-space preservation logically expanded conservation’s scope to the whole environment

Evidence

By 1965, the conservationist Wallace Stegner was arguing that the effort to preserve open space ultimately had to lead to a profound concern for “the total environment” – and, indeed, to an environmental ethic that will reach all the way from the preservation of untouched wilderness to the beautification of industrial cities, that will concern itself with saving the still-savable and healing the half-ruined and cleansing the polluted, that will touch not only land but air and water, that will have as its purpose the creation of a better environment for men, as well as the creation or preservation of viable habitats for the species that our expansion threatens. — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 620

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly evidences the book’s core claim (open-space fights widened environmentalism beyond wilderness) that feeds my Eco-Justice and Grafting & Growth land-use threads.
• XREF: connects to: Ecological thinking converted open space from amenity into survival necessity — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 533; Postwar land-use activism uniquely grounded protection in ecological process arguments — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 718; Dramatized connection beats warnings and statistics for conservation — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 299 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Preservation inherently requires removal from immediacy and external influence #complicates (0.72)