Clarence Petty, conservationist, 104, dies

[The Straight Story]

Clarence Petty, conservationist, 104, dies

CANTON, N.Y., Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Clarence Petty, who advocated tirelessly for the preservation of the Adirondack Mountains, died at his Canton, N.Y., home, his family said. He was 104.

Petty was an Adirondack Park ranger and later a link between the New York State Conservation Department (now the Department of Environmental Conservation) and the New York Legislature, The New York Times reported.

He helped establish the Adirondack Council, a non-profit environmental group, and served as its first director.

Petty, who had climbed 46 of the highest peaks in the Adirondacks, savored the wilderness.

"I would be just as pleased if I could stand on the Capitol steps in Albany and look towards Montreal and not see a damn thing except wilderness," Petty said in 2005 when he opposed plans to put more snowmobile trails in Adirondack Park.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2009/12/07/Clarence-Petty-conservationist-104-dies/UPI-99201260167854/

[Raine]

1. Another one of the good ones gone

THANKS for posting that.