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The Man Who Built the Sierra Club: A Life of David Brower

The Man Who Built the Sierra Club

The Man Who Built the Sierra Club

A Life of David Brower Robert Wyss

Columbia University Press New York

Columbia University Press

Publishers Since 1893

New York Chichester, West Sussex

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Copyright 2016 Columbia University Press

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E-ISBN 978-0-231-54131-2

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Wyss, Bob.

Title: The man who built the Sierra Club : a life of David Brower / Robert Wyss.

Description: New York : Columbia University Press, [2016] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015034505 | ISBN 9780231164467 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780231541312 (e-book)

Subjects: LCSH: Brower, David, 19122000. | EnvironmentalistsUnited StatesBiography. | ConservationistsUnited StatesBiography. | Sierra ClubHistory.

Classification: LCC QH31. B859 W97 2016 | DDC 333.72092dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015034505

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1912, July 1	Born in Berkeley, California
1929, January	Enrolled at the University of California, leaves after three semesters
1933, autumn	Joined the Sierra Club
1935, June	Failed with climbing team in first ascent of Mount Waddington in British Columbia
1938	Hired as associate editor of the Sierra Club Bulletin
1939, October	Succeeded with a team in a first ascent of Shiprock in New Mexico
1941, April	Elected to the Sierra Club board of directors
June	Hired as an editorial assistant at the University of California Press
1942, October	Enlisted in the U.S. Army, assigned to the Tenth Mountain Division, mountain training, service in Italy
1943, May 1	Married Anne Hus
1945, September	Rehired as an editor by the University of California Press
1952, December	Hired as the Sierra Clubs first executive director, resigned from the board
1953, summer	Rafted the canyons of Dinosaur National Monument
August	Visited Deadman Creek forest, disillusionment began with the U.S. Forest Service
1954, January	Testified against the Dinosaur dams at a congressional hearing
1955, spring	Supervised the publication of first conservation crusade book, This Is Dinosaur
November	Dam proponents agreed to drop support for Dinosaur dams
1956, February	Criticized National Park Service $1 billion Mission 66 public-works project
March	Supported law authorizing an enlarged Glen Canyon Dam in exchange for no Dinosaur dams
June,	Arranged introduction of a wilderness bill in the U.S. Senate
October,	Construction began on the Glen Canyon Dam
1960, summer	Published This Is the American Earth, the first of the Exhibit Format books
December	Asked author Wallace Stegner to write the Wilderness Letter, a poetic plea supporting wilderness preservation
1961, April	Journeyed to Rainbow Bridge to draw attention to the threatened landmark
1962, autumn	Published In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World, with text by Henry David Thoreau and photos by Eliot Porter
1963, January	Fought unsuccessfully to stop the completed Glen Canyon Dam from backing up the Colorado River and creating Lake Powell
May	Placed in charge of the campaign to stop two Grand Canyon dams
June	Published The Place No One Knew, a lament on the loss of Glen Canyon
1964, August	Congress passed the wilderness bill
1966, March	Organized Readers Digest conference on the Grand Canyon dams
May	Failed to object when the Sierra Club board voted to support the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant
June	Published a newspaper advertisement criticizing the Grand Canyon dams. One day later the clubs tax-deductible status suspended by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
December	IRS confirmed its earlier ruling, which held despite further appeals
1967, February	U.S. government dropped its plans for the Grand Canyon dams
May	The Sierra Club membership in an election voted two to one to back the Diablo decision
Sierra Club board members failed to fire Brower or transfer him to New York
1968, summer	Struggled in disputes over book contracts, a new London office, and a new two-part book on the Galpagos Islands
October	Fought charges from three Sierra Club board members seeking to fire him
autumn	Prevailed in campaigns to establish North Cascades and Redwood National Parks
1969, January	Published Earth National Park newspaper advertisement; stripped of access to Sierra Club finances Stepped down as executive director to run with slate to control the Sierra Club board
April	Failed with slate to win any seats on the Sierra Club board
May	Resigned as Sierra Club executive director
summer,	Created new environmental organization, Friends of the Earth
1971, January	Organized what became Friends of the Earth International
1974, January	Focused increasingly on energy in the wake of a global energy crisis
1979, November	Stepped down as fulltime president of Friends of the Earth but remained in control
1983, April	Elected to Sierra Club board of directors
1984, July	Dismissed from Friends of the Earth board
1985, autumn	Joined Earth Island Institute, hired loyal Friends of the Earth staff
1996, November	Campaigned to close the Glen Canyon Dam
2000, November 5	Died in Berkeley, California

David Brower, the Sierra Club, and their quest to save Americas great rivers

While David Brower and the Sierra Club had a national agenda to protect wilderness, it was in the American West during the 1950s and 1960s that they achieved some of their greatest triumphs. Brower cherished the wild rivers of the Colorado River basin and campaigned tirelessly to save them for future generations against those who would seek to dam and tame them. The magnificent national park and national monument in Grand Canyon and Dinosaur would not be what they are today without the unfettered rivers that define them. Through his audacious, stubborn leadership of the Sierra Club and his consummate political skill in opposing federal agencies, Brower thwarted efforts to build dams at Echo Park and Split Mountain in Dinosaur National Monument and at Bridge Canyon and Marble Canyon in Grand Canyon. You will find these stories and many others in this book. You will also find the story of the Glen Canyon Dam in Paige, Arizonathe compromise that Brower agreed to that haunted him for the rest of his days.

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