Sierra Club executive director and chairman, 1980s-1990s
Subtitle: a perspective on transitions in the club and the environmental movement
By: J. Michael McCloskey ; with an introduction by H. Anthony Ruckel. Interviews conducted by Ann Lage in 1998. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Lage, Ann.; Ruckel, H. Anthony.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1999
Subjects: Sierra Club -- History.; Conservationists -- California -- Interviews.; Conservation of natural resources -- California -- History.; Conservation of natural resources -- United States -- History.
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: Sierra Club Oral history series.
Description: Sierra Club executive director during Reagan administration: James Watt, passage of wilderness bills, club growth and organizational issues; executive directors Douglas Wheeler, Michael Fischer and Carl Pope; role as club chairman, 1985-1999: representing the club in Washington, D.C., working on nonprofit regulatory reform, international trade issues, reflections on Clinton administration; Sierra Club international program: park protection, human rights issues, biodiversity; trends in environmental movement: radical environmentalism, market solutions, social policy issues, attitudes toward wilderness; changes in the club's environmental strategies; Sierra Club internal affairs: transitions in volunteer leadership, chapters and the national club, relations with Sierra Club Foundation and Legal Defense Fund; divisive issues in the club: ancient forests, zero-cut logging policy, immigration and population control; wife Maxine McCloskey's environmental activism: the Whale Center and ocean habitat protection.