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David Myers, conservationist and land broker for nature, dies at 73

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There was something almost subversive about David Myers's approach to conservation. He spoke the language of developers, negotiated like one, and sometimes even thought like one - but his ambitions ran in the opposite direction. Where others saw empty land as opportunity for subdivisions or shopping malls, he saw the scaffolding of nature itself: canyons, deserts, mountains that demanded safeguarding long before anyone thought to destroy them. B…

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David Myers, conservationist and land broker for nature, dies at 73 - EnviroLink Network

There was something almost subversive about David Myers’s approach to conservation. He spoke the language of developers, negotiated like one, and sometimes even thought like one — but his ambitions ran in the opposite direction. Where others saw empty land as opportunity for subdivisions or shopping malls, he saw the scaffolding of nature itself: canyons, deserts, mountains that demanded safeguarding long before anyone thought to destroy them. Bo

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