Word: willcox
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...expect the fires to help restore the park's depleted stands of aspen trees and increase the wide array of insects, birds and mammals that have found Yellowstone's aging forests increasingly inhospitable. "It's part of living in an ecosystem that is basically wild and uncontrollable," says Louisa Willcox of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, which supports the natural-burn policy...
Yellowstone officials anticipate congressional oversight hearings, and some observers predict that the summer of 1988 will be a turning point in the debate over how fires should be managed. "This fire will be an example of what went right and what went wrong," says Willcox. But with many areas still blazing out of control late last week, such a postmortem won't take place until fall at the earliest, after nature finally snuffs out the last flames with rain and snow...
...might be wondering what Wayne Clifford Willcox over in Dallas has to do with any of this. Seems that his roots are way out in Pasadena, California, him being the son of Dr. and Mrs. Jonas Clifford Willcox of that city. Dr. Willcox is an orthodontist right in Pasadena, the article says. Before he went down to become an investment officer in Dallas, he got himself a master's degree at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Before that, he went to Princeton University too, graduating...