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David Gaines

Dec 30, 1947 - Jan 11, 1988 (40 years old) in

David Allen Gaines (1947-1988) was an American environmentalist and the founder of the Mono Lake Committee. The Mono Lake Committee (along with the Audubon Society) initiated a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power to reduce or stop the water diversions that were lowering Mono Lake.

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Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
Self - Co-Founder, Mono Lake Committee (archive footage)

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