April 1951 (age 52)

A month of comings and goings for the Olson family. Sigurd Jr. left for Alaska, where he would spend his career as a wildlife biologist. His younger brother Bob, meanwhile, came to Elizabeth's home town of Hayward, Wis., to spend a couple of months helping out with Sigurd's ultimately short-lived North Country magazine.



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April 1966 (age 67)

Not much to report. Sigurd spent some time this month working on the manuscript that became Open Horizons, spoke to National Park Service employees at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, about the importance of wilderness in the parks, and attended the Park Service Advisory Board meeting in Washington, D.C., where a main topic of conversation was the proposed Redwoods National Park in California.

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