sent his daughter, Julie Nixon to Miami and the Everglades and to personally report back to him on the situation. Nixon concurred that the loss of this portion of the Everglades would be a "loss for the nation" and supported Browder and Marjory Douglas. Browder was the political director of Friends of the Earth in Washington, D.C. but split with FOE to form the Environmental Policy Center in 1972. In 1976, he was brought in by Jimmy Carter to assist environmental planning for the Carter-Mondale Policy Planning Office under Jack Watson during the Presidential campaign. He left the Presidential Transition after the election, but when the President-elect was briefed at Blair House on the unit’s work, Carter asked his top aides, “Where’s Joe?” Browder subsequently served as a special assistant to an Assistant Secretary of the Interior and had a role in Carter administration environmental policies. Browder is referred to in the book The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and The Politics of Paradise by Michael Grunwald, as Audubon's "abrasive but effective southeastern representative" who possessed "ferocious intensity". He was known for criticizing fellow environmentalists, which made him something of a pariah among them. He "blasted" presidential candidate, then Vice-President Al Gore over for dragging his feet on the Everglades airport issue. Gore ended up losing the election for presidency over a handful of votes in that state. In 1997, Browder was appointed professor at the Johns Hopkins University Graduate School of Environmental Sciences, teaching Markets, Competition and the Environment (graduate course). Present activities Browder continued to be active in efforts to preserve the Florida Everglades. He was a principal in Dunlap & Browder, Inc. an environmental consulting firm in Washington, DC. He resided in Fairhaven, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. References Further reading The Environmental Destruction of South Florida: A Handbook for Citizens. Ross McCluney. University of Miami Press, 1971. Nixon and the Environment, Village Voice Books, 1972. Edited by James H. Rathlesberger, Browder’s chapter on White House Decision Making is insightful. 1938 births 2016 deaths American environmentalists