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At 88 years old, Lowell Young, a former Audubon chapter leader, has continued his decades of advocacy on behalf of birds and habitats by diving into perhaps his most personal cause yet: a campaign to create the Range of Light National Monument in California’s Sierra Nevada. To that end, Young, who is known as much for.

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