March 24, 2000
The Struggle to Protect a Pristine Mongolian Lake
The first time Clyde E. Goulden saw Lake Hovsgol, in northern Mongolia, he knew he was looking at a treasure. He also knew that he had, serendipitously, been presented with a unique opportunity to study one of the purest bodies of freshwater in the world.
That first encounter, in 1994, led to the creation of the Institute for Mongolian Diversity and Ecological Studies, at the Academy of Natural Sciences here, and to Goulden's intense involvement, not only in research on the lake, but
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