Northern Rockies Conservationist Dies In Avalanche
Heartbreaking is the only way to describe it. On the afternoon of New Year's Eve 2011-12, the American conservation community lost a young, fearless and inexhaustible advocate.
David Gaillard, 44, of Bozeman, Montana, died in an avalanche while cross-country skiing the Hayden Creek drainage, located in the Absaroka Mountains just beyond the back northeastern doorstep of Yellowstone National Park. He was with his wife Kerry Corcoran Gaillard, who was not caught in the slide. (It was initially feared that their dog, Oly, also was lost in the avalanche but the dog survived...a terrific story on Oly's homecoming can be
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Written by Todd Wilkinson
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