“So what you have,” Kenner said, “is a history of ignorant, incompetent and disastrously intrusive intervention, followed by attempts to repair the intervention, followed by attempts to repair the damage caused by the repairs, as dramatic as any oil spill or toxic dump. Except in this case there is no evil corporation or fossil fuel economy to blame. This disaster was caused by the environmentalists charged with protecting the wilderness, who made one dreadful mistake after another – and, along the way, proved how little they understood the environment they intended to protect.”