Matthew S. Fantle

David Brower floated and argued with Floyd Dominy over what Brower considered to be Dominy’s (and the Bureau’s) assaults on the natural world. Similarly, my first research adviser, economic geologist Dr. Half Zantop, and I debated issues on the banks of the Ompompanoosuc River in 1996. I was intent, monomaniacally so, on convincing him that mining was evil. He patiently educated me; what I took away was the sense of the delicate balance, the internal conflicts, inherent in the geosciences.