Lindsey, Alton A.

Lindsey, Alton A.
▪ 2000

      American ecologist and conservationist who was credited with having helped to preserve the Indiana shore of Lake Michigan, which became the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, and who studied the animal life in Antarctica as part of Adm. Richard E. Byrd's second trip (1933–35) to the continent; a number of entities were named in his honour, including the 12 Lindsey Islands on the coast of Antarctica, the genus and species of insect called Lindseyus coastus, and the Lindsey Ancient Tree Site, the oldest dated wood in the American Southwest (b. May 7, 1907, Pittsburgh, Pa.—d. Dec. 19, 1999, Tulsa, Okla.).

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