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Remembering Polly Dyer: New exhibit profiles a Cascades champion
The 'American Alps' were in peril. One of the world’s largest mining companies had designs on excavating within the jagged wilderness known as the North Cascades. A band of conservationists, including the cheerfully tenacious Polly Dyer, had other ideas.
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