Andy Mahler, advocate for public forests in America

Andy Mahler, advocate for public forests in America

In the late 20th century, forest conservation in the eastern United States was rarely a matter of sweeping victories or clean resolutions. It was a practice shaped by hearings that dragged on, injunctions that arrived too late, and landscapes divided among agencies with overlapping mandates and uneven resolve. The work tended to fall to people willing to read environmental-impact statements closely, show up repeatedly, and keep doing so after pu…