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George W. Sears

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American environmentalist

United StatesWritersLived 1821 to 1890 · aged 68
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George Washington Sears was an American writer for Forest and Stream magazine in the 1880s and an early conservationist.

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George Washington Sears was an American writer for Forest and Stream magazine in the 1880s and an early conservationist. His stories, appearing under the pen name "Nessmuk", popularized self-guided canoe camping tours of the Adirondack lakes in open, lightweight solo canoes and what is today called ultralight camping or ultralight backpacking.

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United States
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deceased
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Lived 1821 to 1890 · aged 68
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