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One of the few full-time environmentalists in the world, Brower is Executive Director of the 60,000-member Sierra Club. The group began with an interest mostly in mountaineering and California, but grew as it became more and more vocal in battles over remaining hunks of wilderness. Stubbornness and...
This may sound more like a crusader than a nature-lover, but that's not a bad description: he is a crusader, a new muckraker, in some ways typical of a changed tone in what conservation ought to mean. At 55, he is agile and athletic, still a skilled mountaineer...
The budding bureaucrat has been missing since Feb. 8 from his Berkeley job. Missing with him, at last count, is more than $600,000 from ABAG's coffers. Investigators charged that, while ostensibly grappling with such area-wide concerns as water conservation, smog control and sewage disposal in his...
"Then, in a smiling way, I said to her: 'I can't concentrate on my gin rummy with your flapping mouth.' That really started something." Wow, did it ever. Judy Garland, 45, had barely finished that bit of smile talk when she got a face full of...
Sir: In your article on hunting surpluses [Sept. 29], you didn't mention that all this wildlife results from conservation programs that hunters have paid for. Self-imposed license fee revenues and excise taxes on guns and shells keep the wildlife management programs of all 50 states alive and...