Here’s another read for this morning. The Adirondack Almanack’s John Warren offers a long and lovely remembrance of Anne LaBastille.<\/p>\n
LaBastille was an outspoken proponent of environmental conservation whose book Woodswoman reached a national audience and served as inspiration for legions of women interested in the outdoors. At the same time she was a controversial Adirondack figure who served as Adirondack Park Agency (APA) commissioner from 1975 to 1993, a tenure that showed her to be a tenacious defender of the wild character of the Adirondack Park.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Warren tells her history of environmental activism, from a BS in Conservation of Natural Resources from Cornell in 1955, research of mule deer in Colorado and the giant pied-billed grebe in Guatelmala, to her popular success as the writer of Woodswoman<\/em> in 1976:<\/p>\n
LaBastille wrote in Woodswoman that she came to the Adirondacks to “sit in my cabin as in a cocoon, sheltered by the swaying spruces from the outside world.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
LaBastille died Friday at age 75.<\/p>\n