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Article: She was an activist for desert protection.(Local)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- October 13, 2009
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By Valerie J. Nelson
Los Angeles Times
Harriet Allen, an environmentalist who mentored generations of desert activists and played a key role in the 1994 passage of the landmark California Desert Protection Act, has died. She was 95.
Allen died Sept. 30 of complications related to old age at a Kaiser hospital in San Diego, her family said.
"She waged a decades-long battle to educate everyone that the desert matters," said Elden Hughes, a longtime desert-protection activist. "The fact that the desert has sustained itself as well as it has is a tribute to Harriet Allen. She deserves a big chunk of the credit."
In 1954, Allen ...