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This article is from the Conservatism FAQ, by Jim Kalb kalb@aya.yale.edu with numerous contributions by others.

If conserving is a good thing, why isn't ecology a conservative cause?

Conservatism is concerned more with relations among men than those
between man and nature, so ecology is not one of its defining issues.
There is, however, nothing in conservatism intrinsically at odds with
ecological concerns. Some conservatives and conservative schools of
thought take such issues very seriously; others less so. There are,
of course, conservative grounds for criticizing or rejecting
particular aspects of the existing environmental movement, such as
overemphasis on central controls.