Lynton Keith Caldwell: An Environmental Visionary and the National Environmental Policy Act

Acknowledgments

xv Since 2002, the year that Caldwell indicated to me that he had faith in my abilities to be his biographer, it has taken me some nine years to research and bring this book to publication. I was actually writing the first draft of my manuscript when Caldwell died in August 2006. Fortunately, only a few weeks earlier I had promised him that I would complete it and I can only hope that, despite considerable reworking since that time, I have done Caldwell at least some of the justice to which he is so clearly entitled. IwouldparticularlyliketoexpressmyappreciationtoRichardN.L. Andrews and James Barnes for their most patient serial readings of my manuscript. Equal appreciation goes to the Caldwell family, and especiallytoElaine :Icouldnothavewrittenthisbookwithouttheirkindness in providing me unlimited access to Caldwell’s voluminous collections of papers, documents, and private correspondence and their subsequent unwaveringbeliefinme.Thanksalsotomypublishing“team”atIndiana UniversityPresswho,throughoutallthesetbacksandrewritesremained steadfast in their support. Linda Oblack encouraged me from the beginning and has been my principal advocate at the Press. Sarah Jacobi and Nancy Lightfoot have graciously carried on the work through other stages of publication. Bradley Cook of the IU Archives and Lou Malcomb of the Indiana University Libraries were both most generous with their time and knowledgeable assistance. My copyeditors, Shoshanna Green (first chapters) and Mary Hill (remainder of book) both did a careful, most professional job editing my final manuscript. Acknowledgments xvi acknowledgments I also appreciate all those who provided me over the years with their personal recollections of Caldwell, with special thanks to (in no particular order) Lynton Hayes, Robert V. Bartlett, Randall Baker, James M. Gladden, Toufiq Siddiqi, William Van Ness, Daniel Dreyfus, Paul O’Neill, Dinah Bear, Katie McGinty, Lee Hamilton, John Ryan (died 2011), Charles Bonser, Bill DeVille, Paul Weiland, Carl Bausch, Charles Eccleston, Mary McConnell and Betsy Smith of The Nature Conservancy , Indianapolis, and of course, Elaine Caldwell Emmi and Ned Caldwell(mostofwhosestoriesoftheirfatherended,alas!onthecutting roomfloor,butleftmuchscopeforanentirefurtherbookonthepersonal lives and world travel experiences of Keith and Helen). I would also like to give a heartfelt thank you to those who so kindly contributed toward a special subsidy required by the Press in order to publish this book in such a fine format: Bill DeVille, Elaine Caldwell Emmi, Michael Schudson, Toufiq Siddiqi, and Paul Weiland. Lastly, I would like to thank my husband and my friend and fellow environmental advocate, Dr. Robert Bieder, for their unwavering support over the years. Wendy Read Wertz Bloomington, September 2013 Lynton Keith Caldwell “Is there anybody there?” said the Traveler, Knocking on the moonlit door . . . Walter De la Mare, The Listeners, 1873 All renewable natural resources are linked into a common pattern of relationship. We can save any one of them only by measures which save them all. And we are a part of the whole which must be conserved. Paul Sears, Deserts on the March, 1935 ...