Edgar Wayburn, Longtime Sierra Club President, Dies at 103. By Keith Thursby, LATimes, March 8, 2010. "Edgar Wayburn, a San Francisco physician and longtime president of the Sierra Club who was credited with protecting more parks and wilderness areas than any other American, has died. He was 103. Wayburn died Friday at his home in San Francisco of natural causes, said his daughter, Cynthia. He was the impetus for the establishment of Redwood National Park and pushed to create the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Point Reyes National Seashore and the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, among others. 'Edgar Wayburn has helped to preserve the most breathtaking examples of the American landscape. He has saved more of our wilderness than any other person alive,' President Bill Clinton said in 1999 when he presented Wayburn with the country's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom."
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