News of Robert Redford’s passing broke the other day, and homages streamed in from the worlds of movie and preservation. Fly fishers revere Redford for lastly bringing Norman Maclean’s “A River Goes through It” to the screen, and his last narration from the movie resonates with anybody who enjoys hanging out on the water. Composing in The Salt Lake Tribune, Julie Jag explains how Redford defended the crucial natural deposits of his embraced home state, Utah.
Robert Redford battled to safeguard a tributary of among the best fly fishing streams in the West. He required to a pulpit and railed versus the building of a power plant amongst hoodoos in the southern Utah desert. He made sacrifices to ward off mass advancement in the mountains where he rode horses and assisted reestablish mountain goats.
These aren’t scenes from any of the 50-plus movies the star starred in or produced. Rather they’re bits of Redford’s real-life function as an ecological activist, and the real-life scenes he maintained are most likely to end up being the star’s most long-lasting tradition.
Read the full story in The Salt Lake Tribune
Picture by Jean Beaufort, through Public Domain
