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    LEADING LADIES

    Aug 15, 2019 2 minutes
    BY GRAPHIC NOVELIST SABRINA JONES

    ANNE LABASTILLE

    1933-2011

    nne LaBastille came to Big Moose Lake as a young woman, where she fell in love with the owner of a lakeside lodge. But her enduring love affair was with the Adirondacks, its mountains, lakes and creatures. With a PhD in wildlife ecology from Cornell University, she, chronicling her solitary life at Twitchell Lake in the 1970s. She received numerous international awards and honorary degrees; in her role as an Adirondack Park Agency commissioner, she consistently supported wilderness preservation.

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