Fairfield Osborn became present of the New York Zoological Society and it was almost a family tradition. His father, the great paleontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn had been president of the New York Zoological Society many years before. Fair was a remarkable man in many, many ways with a very active intellect. And he became increasingly concerned pursuant to his book, “Our Plundered Planet” on the way things were going. He early on became especially exercise by the effect of pesticides and wanted to find some way to begin to investigate the damage that he felt they were causing. So based within the New York Zoological Society, he created a branch which was called The Conservation Foundation, and eventually he incorporated it separately, although it included many of the same trustees from the New York Zoological Society. And in fact, some of our staff members at the zoo, our business office, and so on, They brought out the wood chipper. Great.
