Clif Merritt interview, 2002.

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Clif Merritt interview, 2002.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/770688696

In this interview Clif Merritt discusses growing up in Helena Valley; family history in Prickly Pear Valley; enjoying fishing and hunting as a youth; life on family homestead in southeast part of Helena Valley; work for Montana Department of Labor and Industry in 1950s and early 1960s; work for Wilderness Society beginning in 1964; work with Montana Wildlife Federation prior to Montana Wilderness Assocation; his work as national field director for The Wilderness Society; role of Lee Metcalf and Mike Mansfield as Montana congressman in wilderness legislation; debates over Lincoln Back Country Bill; thoughts about roadless area protections today; stopping road through Jewell Basin in Seeley Swan; establishing Wilderness Walk program; Bunker Creek battle, plan to cut roads and clear cut on the North and Middle Forks of Flathead; and current work supporting wildlife corridor protection. (OH 2075)

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