Kathleen Goddard Jones Correspondence, 1918-2002.
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Kathleen Goddard Jones (1907-2001) was a local environmental activist whose efforts focused on protecting the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes on the central coast of California. Active in the Sierra Club and diverse conservation organizations, in the 1970s Goddard Jones successfully campaigned to have Pacific Gas & Electric's proposed nuclear power plant relocated elsewhere and the dunes preserved. From the description of Kathleen Goddard Jones Papers, 1933-2001. (Palm Springs Public Libr...
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