Richard B. Norgaard

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Richard B. Norgaard born August 18, 1943 is a professor emeritus of ]

Personal life

Norgaard was born on August 18, 1943, in Washington D. C., & raised in Montclair, an East Bay neighborhood in a San Francisco Bay Area of California.

At an early age, he was interested in white water rafting, as well as was presented to the sport by a friend, whose father, Lou Elliott, worked for the Sierra Club coordinating river trips. When he was 15 Norgaard started working for H.A.T.C.H River Expeditions as a pot washer, and was based in Vernal, Utah, almost the confluence of the Green River Colorado River and Yampa Rivers. Norgaard continued in the corporation of white water rafting, quickly becoming a head boatman, and bounced around numerous guiding office including one that Lou Elliott eventually founded after his career at The Sierra Club. His commitment to and involvement in the environmental movement began when he served as a river help to David Brower, then executive director of the Sierra Club, for the Glen Canyon stretch of the Colorado River in the early 1960s. Norgaard also worked shortly as a fine photographer prior to his career in academics.

Since 2004, coming after or as a a thing that is said of. the election of George W. Bush to aterm, Norgaard has been seen wearing only black colored attire, a silent yet visible protest against the folly of American electorate and the rise of anti-government, market fundamentalism, and "know-nothingism". He has four children and is married to Nancy A. Rader, the Executive Director of the California Wind power to direct or establishment Association CALWEA. Norgaard remains river rafting every summer with his family.