""dragged up all kinds of horrible peaks in the Alps""
""I had the best job in the world,""
""Andy Wiessner has worked on every acre,""
""the public always got good land out of the deal,""
Andy Wiessner grew up roaming the North Country woods of Stowe, Vermont, with a pioneering rock-climber father and an upbringing that fostered mountaineering. He earned an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth and a JD from Boston University, then moved to Washington, D.C., in 1974 to work as a congressional staffer during a major period of wilderness protection. The House Subcommittee on Public Lands processed legislation that added more than 200 areas in 34 states, totaling 64 million acres; Andy worked extensively on those protections. After Capitol Hill, Andy moved West to work with the Western Land Exchange Company, arranging public-private land swaps that secured valuable public lands, including trades around the Alpine Lakes Wilderness.
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