biography
| name: |
Brower, David (Ross)
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pronunciation:
[brower]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1912–2000)
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| biography:
| Conservationist, born in Berkeley, California, USA. He worked for the National Park Service in Yosemite National Park before joining the University of California Press as an editor in 1941. In 1952 he became executive director of the Sierra Club, and soon developed a reputation as a militant environmentalist. Under his leadership, the Sierra Club blocked billions of dollars worth of construction projects in wilderness areas. Sierra Club conservatives forced him from the post in 1969, and he then formed the John Muir Institute and Friends of the Earth, which initiated the first Earth Day (22 Apr 1969). In 1982 he founded the Earth Island Institute in San Francisco to back worldwide conservation projects. His autobiography, For Earth's Sake: The Life and Times of David Brower, appeared in 1990. |
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