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I recently finished reading The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and Fire that Saved America, and we've been watching Ken Burns' PBS documentary, The National Parks: America's Best Idea. I plan to write more about these at some point, but one thing you learn from both, if you are paying attention, is the conservative case for conservation. Sullivan posts today on why preserving the environment and the physical world for future generations - "to husband the natural world, not rape it and throw it away" - should be a conservative value. But that word doesn't mean what it should anymore, so maybe it's just better to not politicize it and say that conservation should be an American value.