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==Economics-based land ethic== This is a land ethic based wholly upon economic self-interest.<ref name=Leopold1949-177>Leopold, A. 1949. ''A Sand County Almanac''. p. 177. Oxford University Press, New York.</ref> Leopold sees two flaws in this type of ethic. First, he argues that most members of an ecosystem have no economic worth. For this reason, such an ethic can ignore or even eliminate these members when they are actually necessary for the health of the biotic community of the land. And second, it tends to relegate conservation necessary for healthy ecosystems to the government and these tasks are too large and dispersed to be adequately addressed by such an institution. This ties directly into the context within which Leopold wrote ''A Sand County Almanac.'' For example, when the [[US Forest Service]] was founded by [[Gifford Pinchot]], the prevailing ethos was economic and [[utilitarian]]. Leopold argued for an [[ecological]] approach, becoming one of the first to popularize this term coined by [[Henry Chandler Cowles]] of the [[University of Chicago]] during his early 1900s research at the [[Indiana Dunes]]. Conservation became the preferred term for the more [[anthropocentrism|anthropocentric]] model of [[resource management]], while the writing of Leopold and his inspiration, [[John Muir]], led to the development of [[environmentalism]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aldoleopold.org/post/understanding-land-ethic/|title = Understanding the Land Ethic|date = 29 May 2015}}</ref>
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