A good question in this election year, in which Vice President Al Gore, poster boy of the environmental movement, is likely to be the Democratic nominee.
Conservatives are good at conserving things antiquities, historic buildings, institutions.
What Hard Greens must work hardest to conserve, says Huber, are dwindling wilderness and recreational areas, where nature s beauty may be enjoyed and the spirit nourished. Huber s hero is Teddy Roosevelt, the Republican who practically invented conservation and in his years as president protected millions of acres of Western land for the enjoyment of future generations. T.R. will never get any valentines from Greenpeace. Huber thinks most conservation should be left to states and counties and the efforts of private-property owners themselves. He favors setting aside more acreage in private land trusts, which he calls the fastest-growing element in the conservation movement.