Throughout life I have been told that the best way to protect the environment is through government and regulations, and being an environmentalist I happily accepted that. Trouble is in the last few years I started paying more attention to politics and as I continued my education in environmental science and wildlife management, I started to realize I agreed more and more with libertarians and anarchists. The question now is how do I balance the ideas of non aggression and volunteerism with the legal web surrounding environmental protection? What is the government's record of protecting the environment vs ruining it? Hopefully I can dig into those issues and get some dialogue started.