Edgar Wayburn, a Leader in Saving the Wilderness, Dies at 103
Edgar Wayburn, a physician who joined the Sierra Club to take a burro trip and then went on to become a major figure in the conservation movement, leading campaigns that preserved more than 100 million wild acres, died Friday at his home in San Francisco. He was 103.
In announcing his death, the Sierra Club called Dr. Wayburn “the 20th-century John Muir,” referring to its founder, who preserved the Yosemite Valley.
When President Bill Clinton awarded Dr. Wayburn the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1999, he said Dr. Wayburn had “saved more of our wilderness than any other person alive.”
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Edgar Wayburn, a Leader in Saving the Wilderness, Dies at 103 
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