{"id":29036,"date":"2025-06-04T16:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T16:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29036"},"modified":"2025-06-04T17:24:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T17:24:06","slug":"frank-graham-jr-who-wrote-about-nature-in-audubon-magazine-dies-at-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29036","title":{"rendered":"Frank Graham Jr., Who Wrote About Nature in Audubon Magazine, Dies at 100"},"content":{"rendered":"
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He worked for the Brooklyn Dodgers and wrote about sports but mostly focused on conservation, publishing a sequel to Rachel Carson\u2019s expos\u00e9 on the dangers of pesticides.<\/p>\n

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Frank Graham Jr., who wrote eloquently about the natural world and conservation for Audubon Magazine for nearly 50 years and published a book that updated Rachel Carson\u2019s groundbreaking 1962 expos\u00e9, \u201cSilent Spring,\u201d which had warned about the dangers of pesticides, died on May 25 at his home in Milbridge, Maine. He was 100.<\/p>\n

David Seideman, a former editor in chief of Audubon, the magazine published by the National Audubon Society, confirmed the death.<\/p>\n

The subjects of Mr. Graham\u2019s writing \u201cran the gamut,\u201d Mr. Seideman said in an interview, \u201cfrom the tiniest creatures, like spiders \u2014 about which he was a self-taught expert \u2014 to giant sandhill cranes on Nebraska\u2019s Platte River. There wasn\u2019t a creature that didn\u2019t interest him.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cI\u2019d visit him in Maine, where he had a little island, and we\u2019d be eating plants, and he\u2019d also be picking spiders out of his kayak and identifying them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In addition to birds and insects, Mr. Graham wrote about threats to the environment. Ed Neal, the outdoors columnist for The San Francisco Examiner, described Mr. Graham\u2019s 1996 book, \u201cDisaster by Default: Politics and Water Pollution,\u201d as \u201ca damning indictment of what industry and indifferent government have done to the nation\u2019s waterways.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mr. Graham\u2019s 1996 book, \u201cDisaster by Default: Politics and Water Pollution,\u201d was an \u201cindictment of what industry and indifferent government have done to the nation\u2019s waterways,\u201d one critic said.<\/span>Curtis Books<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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He worked for the Brooklyn Dodgers and wrote about sports but mostly focused on conservation, publishing a sequel to Rachel Carson\u2019s expos\u00e9 on the dangers of pesticides.Frank Graham Jr., who wrote eloquently about the natural world and conservation for Audubon Magazine for nearly 50 years and published a book that updated Rachel Carson\u2019s groundbreaking 1962 expos\u00e9, \u201cSilent Spring,\u201d which had warned about the dangers of pesticides, died on May 25 at his home in Milbridge, Maine. He was 100.David Seideman, a former editor in chief of Audubon, the magazine published by the National Audubon Society, confirmed the death.The subjects of Mr. Graham\u2019s writing \u201cran the gamut,\u201d Mr. Seideman said in an interview, \u201cfrom the tiniest creatures, like spiders \u2014 about which he was a self-taught expert \u2014 to giant sandhill cranes on Nebraska\u2019s Platte River. There wasn\u2019t a creature that didn\u2019t interest him.\u201dHe added, \u201cI\u2019d visit him in Maine, where he had a little island, and we\u2019d be eating plants, and he\u2019d also be picking spiders out of his kayak and identifying them.\u201dIn addition to birds and insects, Mr. Graham wrote about threats to the environment. Ed Neal, the outdoors columnist for The San Francisco Examiner, described Mr. Graham\u2019s 1996 book, \u201cDisaster by Default: Politics and Water Pollution,\u201d as \u201ca damning indictment of what industry and indifferent government have done to the nation\u2019s waterways.\u201dMr. Graham\u2019s 1996 book, \u201cDisaster by Default: Politics and Water Pollution,\u201d was an \u201cindictment of what industry and indifferent government have done to the nation\u2019s waterways,\u201d one critic said.Curtis BooksWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29038,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29039,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29036\/revisions\/29039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}