secured a position with Time Inc., and wrote articles for Time Magazine, Life, and Sports Illustrated, the company's newest magazine with only four published issues at the time. Some of his most notable work included coverage of Nikita Khrushchev's visit to the US in 1959, a 1965 Sports Illustrated cover story when the New York Jets drafted Joe Namath, and coverage of Muhammad Ali resisting the military draft in 1966. Boyle's environmental activism came to light in December 1959 when he wrote his first conservation article about Tule Lake for Sports Illustrated. At the time, he was working in the San Francisco Bureau for Time as their West Coast correspondent, and was on location hunting butterflies with entomologist Vladimir Nabokov when he learned that a landfill was planned for the Tulelake Irrigation District, and "that farmers in northern California were draining Tule Lake, a refuge for some 10 million birds during their southern migration". He was shocked by what was happening, stating: "I took it for granted people weren't going to sully the world. I thought it would get better, not worse". It wasn't long after the Tule Lake incident that Boyle started taking on much bigger opponents, including various state and federal governments and their respective resource agencies. Riverkeeper, conservationist, environmentalist Boyle's affinity with the Hudson River and fishing fueled his environmental activism. He was determined to clean-up the highly polluted Hudson River with its toxic waste and substantial fish kills that had garnered national attention and became the butt of jokes by the late Johnny Carson, former host of The Tonight Show. Boyle was aware that traditional conservation and environmental efforts were not working, and that much more needed to be done. He founded the Hudson River Fishermen's Association (HRFA) in March 1966 after meeting with a group of concerned citizens at the Crotonville American Legion Hall. Fishermen, environmentalists, and scientists comprised the group, and shared Boyles anger and concerns over the deterioration of the Hudson River. Prior to the meeting, Boyle had rediscovered two forgotten laws about pollution of navigable waters in the United States, and announced his research findings at the meeting. One of those laws was the Federal Refuse Act of 1899 which the HRFA used as the basis for their litigation in federal court, resulting in a string of victories and substantial fines charged against water polluters. In 1983, HRFA established the Riverkeeper program,