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DIED. Eliot Porter, 88, conservationist whose dramatic color photography brought new legitimacy to that genre; in Santa Fe. As a young man, fearing that his love of photographing birds was unsuitable for a career, Porter earned an M.D. at the Harvard Medical School and taught biochemistry for 10 years. He quit teaching in 1939 to produce such works as The Flow of Wildness, about the Galapagos Islands; The Tree Where Man Was Born, which explored Africa; and Antarctica. His 1972 book Birds of North America is regarded as a classic...
John A. Cloud '93, despite his conservationist rhetoric, routinely drives with underinflated tires and dirty air filters...
...gained. As Homo sapiens multiplies and forages like army ants, Wilson has grown alarmed about the millions of plant and animal species that are disappearing in civilization's path. Thirty years ago, he witnessed the beginnings of mass deforestation in the Amazon. Ten years ago, he became an active conservationist, with a touch of the ecological poet. Destroying rain forest for economic gain, Wilson now says, "is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal." If there is a gene for vivid imagery, future scientists should know where to look...
...field this summer we will have a geologist, a metallurgist, a conservationist, [a] physical anthropologist [and a] botanist. There's a continual interaction during the time we are actually digging," says Stager. More intensive artifact and lab analysis are deferred to a laboratory in Jerusalem or the Semitic Museum at Harvard. which Stager directs, he says...
Legal business also flows from the environmental impact statements that are now necessary for virtually any major construction. Meanwhile, good old- fashioned conservationist causes, like saving trees and endangered animals, continue to spark hot legal disputes. Says Michael Anderson, an attorney for the Wilderness Society: "There has never been a time when legal action has been used more effectively than now." That may be good news for those seeking to put the law on the side of the environment. But it is even better news for those lawyers who are making big bucks from the booming trade...