Mar 08
Dr. Edgar Wayburn Dies
Posted by Slobokan @ 23:16 · 78 words · print
Dr. Edgar Wayburn, a five-term president of the Sierra Club who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for working to preserve vast tracts of U.S. wilderness, has died. He was 103.
Wayburn died Friday at his home in San Francisco, surrounded by family, the Sierra Club said.
Wayburn, a physician who conducted his conservation work under the radar and largely in his spare time, spearheaded successful efforts to greatly expand national parks.
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