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In November, David Brower, a champion and founder of the modern environmental movement, died at the age of 88. Brower was a life-long wilderness enthusiast and conservationist. He twice served as executive director of the Sierra Club and is credited with helping to build that organization into a powerful and influential environmental lobby group. He also founded the Friends of the Earth organization and the Earth Island Institute. His efforts helped to preserve many of this nation's threatened natural treasures, including the creation of national parks and his strong and successful stance against the proposed building of hydroelectric dams in the Grand Canyon. His advocacy with the Sierra Club aided in the passage of the Wilderness Act, as well a many other regulatory measures and in 1999, he helped form a surprising coalition between members of the Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth with labor unions in the Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment.
Despite numerous disagreements with the leadership of the Sierra Club over what he described as the group's failure to take a strong enough stance on many environmental issues, he is hailed by that group as a "pioneer of modern environmentalism" and as a man " who shaped the face of modern environmentalism." Likewise, President Clinton paid tribute to Brower calling him "one of the earliest and most ardent defenders of the extraordinary natural heritage that enriches and unites all Americans."
 

Mr. Brower is survived by his wife of 57 years, the former Anne Hus; three sons, Robert and John, both of Berkeley, and Ken, of Oakland, Calif., and a daughter, Barbara Brower of Portland.
 

David R. Brower 1912-2000

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