Dennis Pillion, AL.com, 31 May 2016 – When Carl Silverstein was a teenager, tramping through the Alabama outdoors with his father to places like Mt. Cheaha and the Walls of Jericho, Mike Leonard was an inspiration and friend, an example of how one person can make a difference in preserving special wild places.  

Leonard was fresh out of law school, working for a firm in Birmingham and dedicating hours upon hours of his own time to protecting sensitive wild places. He got to know Carl's father J.M. Silverstein through the Alabama Conservancy, and sometimes Carl would tag along. 

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