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Archive Home > 2009 > October > 12 > Harriet Allen, activist for protecting deserts

Harriet Allen, activist for protecting deserts

By Valerie J. Nelson / The Bulletin
October 12, 2009

Harriet Allen, an environmentalist who mentored generations of desert activists and played a key role in the 1994 passage of the landmark California Desert Protection Act, has died. She was 95.

Allen died Sept. 30 of complications related to old age at a Kaiser hospital in San Diego, her family....

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