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A conversation with watershed activist David Brooks on the long-term work of environmental stewardship

“I like biologists. They do cool things. They go to cool places, and I’ll hang around them. I’ll fix their stuff. I’ll carry their stuff. I’m a good pack animal.”  This is how David Brooks, a longtime electrical engineer who was born and raised in Detroit and professes to having disliked his high school biology […]