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

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

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

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…