The Trouble with Wilderness

William Cronon brings up a few good points in his essay, "The Trouble with Wilderness" but it is extremely opinion based and not much solid fact. In my opinion he went from a radical anti-establishment, "Screw the man!!" type to a confused hippy trying to make sense of the world he just seemingly came out of Acoma into. While some of his some of his evidence is true, such as on page 652, paragraph 7, when he describes how the rich wanted to have retreats and estates in the wilderness. What Cronon leaves out is that these estates, or retreats were eventually turned into conservatories by these evil rich people and given back to the people. Also, Cronon leaves out the fact that when many of these national parks were set aside and created it benefited Americans by creating work during the great depression through the Conservation Corps, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and The WPA projects here in California. Overall, the article's tone just seemed angry to me. The author just had a lot of distaste for anything that was "natural". I understood what he was trying to explain, but he really look it to the edge of the concept.