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Robert Sterling Yard

... that at the age of 74, Robert Sterling Yard (pictured) became a founding member and the first president of The Wilderness Society?
... that Orange County Route 9 in New York is, by itself, longer than five of the county's state highways?
... that the trees that gave Maple Lawn, a Frederick Clarke Withers–designed house in Balmville, New York, its name were later destroyed in a hurricane?

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