[Vaquero]

One of the original environmentalists in our country was Teddy Roosevelt and he was a hunter.

if I were a student of semantics (which I am not) I would caution that TR and John Muir were not environmentalists...but conservationists (the work conservative is in there somewhere). And were stewards of the land, not protectionists.

[jazusamo]

I believe what you say is true but they did want to conserve some of our specific environments.