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Sigurd F. Olson

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American conservationist (1899-1982)

United StatesWritersLived 1899 to 1982 · aged 82
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Sigurd Ferdinand Olson was an American writer, environmentalist, and advocate for the protection of wilderness. For more than thirty years, he served as a wilderness guide in the lakes and forests of the Quetico-Superior country of northern Minnesota and western Ontario.

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1974John Burroughs Medal
1967John Muir Award

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Sigurd Ferdinand Olson was an American writer, environmentalist, and advocate for the protection of wilderness. For more than thirty years, he served as a wilderness guide in the lakes and forests of the Quetico-Superior country of northern Minnesota and western Ontario. He was known honorifically as the Bourgeois - a term the voyageurs of old used of their trusted leaders.

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United States
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Writers
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Writer / Author
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deceased
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Lived 1899 to 1982 · aged 82
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7 languages

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