Today, we're going to take a moment to talk about Henry Diamond. He was a lawyer and environmentalist who championed parks and conservation efforts for 50 years. He served as the first commissioner of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), edited the final report of the Outdoor Resources Review Commission, and later went on to establish the firm Beveridge and Diamond. To no one's surprise, it was the foremost national firm that practiced environmental and natural resources law. And these are only some of his accomplishments. In 2011 he received the Lifetime Conservation Achievement Award from the Department of the Interior.
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