The Washington Post, May 24th, 1991
Devereux Butcher, 84, a writer and former conservation group executive who fought to preserve the national park system, died of complications from a fall May 22 at his home in Gladwyn, Pa. The author of four books about park systems, he was a founding editor of National Parks magazine from 1942 to 1957 and executive director here of the National Parks Association, now the National Parks and Conservation Association, from 1942 to 1950. He served as its field representative until 1957. He campaigned against a wide variety of projects that threatened the parks, from proposed hydroelectric power d...
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