Leave no trace and Bushcraft seem to be in conflict with each other. Are they incompatible?
Wikipedia says:
which suggests a direct conflict.
More history of wilderness land management:
Even more about the quote from above:
No longer did a working knowledge of nature anchor the wilderness recreation experience—the new literature aimed to replace woodcraft, which it dismissed as “old-style” camping. ... In general, the new hiking guides dropped sections on building leantos, trapping, and hunting, and replaced them with instructions for selecting minimal-impact campsites, slowing trail erosion, and traveling as discreetly as possible.
Marking the gulf separating the anti-modernist woodsman and the modern backpacker, the well-equipped backpack had become a showcase for advanced consumer technology. ... Most guidebooks offered nothing more than a complacent paragraph-long acknowledgement of the irony that underlay using ever-more modern technology to get back to nature. Hart pointed out that “the stronger our wish to preserve the wild places, the less we can meet them on their own terms; the more sophisticated, civilized, and complex become the gadgets we must bring into them.” ... Only in the convoluted logic of modern consumer culture did it make sense that those actions in the shopping mall were the best way to save wilderness beyond.