The primary claim that Nash is trying to give across is that change is necessary in order to preserve wilderness because “It will either be consciously and deliberately preserved by policy and law or it will vanish.” (75) Nash makes the assumption that as of now, with no direct action being taken, wilderness is disappearing. Nash suggests our current generations, as he redefines as the new frontiersmen, need to take immediate action regarding the preservation of wilderness. He uses the antithesis strategy with the reader and the audience, displaying to them that they must preserve wilderness or it will be gone. Nash builds pathos describing the current technique of emotional defending a start, but not enough to yield results. He goes on to analyze that different parks, animals, and well-known areas of wilderness are being defended and supported without actual reasoning. This strikes some logical thought in the reader and the audience, forcing them to acknowledge they eye opening question Nash possesses, “Why save a place like the Grand Canyon, why keep it wild?” (76)…