1.   A supporter of conservation causes, Smith serves on the national board of the Environmental Defense Fund and recently helped save Moshup Trail in Gay Head from development.

2.   After retirement, he remained active in conservation causes, his family said.

3.   The deal will allow Bass to run cattle on the land, which has never been plowed, and at the same time support a favorite conservation cause.

4.   This is also the spot where Muir took politicians such as President Theodore Roosevelt to gently twist their arms on behalf of conservation causes.