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Fond remembrances like that and general accolades echoed around the country when [Stewart Udall] died March 20 in his Santa Fe home, at the age of 90. The praise was welldeserved, but Udall probably would've been uncomfortable with the tone of reflexive and gushing celebrity worship.
"Any wilderness area, any national park and national monument ... (Udall) created the spirit that made all those things possible," Carl Pope, the Sierra Club's chairman, said in the Los Angeles Times' obituary. "He was always doing the right thing for the Earth," Jim Vaaler, head of that group's Grand Canyon chapter, told the Arizona Republic.In his last column, Udall said he'd become "a troubled optimist ... There is so much that is disturbing. I saw a poll that says 46 percent of the American people think a conservationist is a bad person. What is conservation? It is preserving the best things we have."See the full content of this document
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Death of an Era
When Stewart Udall made his final raft trip on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, at age 84, he took the hard way out.
He didn't float to the take-out at Diamond Creek, where he could have hopped a truck to the can...See the full content of this document
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