The California Academy of Sciences ran an exhibit ca. 1990-1991 called
"Vanishing Deserts"  -- the entrance of the exhibit featured a life scale
motorbiker coming off the top of a sand dune on one wheel...

We caught it from all the usual suspects -- motorcycle clubs, mining
interests, etc. (-- some not insignificant donors included).  The
responses included campaigns of phone calls and letters to the Academy,
articles in biker magazines, letters to trustees, letters to sponsors of
the exhibit and ultimately letters to corporate sponsors of the Academy.
(The exhibit occurred in the context of the battle for the California
Desert Protection Act...) We invited critics into the Academy to visit
the exhibit and talk. Part of our response was to put up a "democracy
wall" where letters were posted and visitors could post comments.

And I personally am proud we did it.

Leaving aside flirtations with sacrilege, iconoclasm and libertarianism
anybody else taken any risks on environmental issues...?  (This is no
light matter any more -- a forest ranger recently had his house bombed
over east of the Sierra -- his wife and daughter were home at the time and
narrowly escaped injury...)

Tom
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