Tundra Swans, Yolo Bypass, Sacramento River Delta. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair.

At a time when nihilistic bullies glory in doing perverse damage to the environment and to our ability to think and learn about the environment, it is important to remember that there is also a cohort, a community, of scientists and activists whose persistent, principled attention over decades has helped to preserve important remnants of our natural world. Ted Beedy who passed away recently in Nevada City, California was one of those.

Ted was an acclaimed ornithologist. He was part of the team whose close observation of bird life and predation at Mono Lake was the basis for stabilizing the level of the Lake against the........

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