Last May, shortly before I left Audubon Magazine (where I was an editor for eight years), I received a flurry of angry calls from around the country. None of these people knew me; they were trying to reach John Flicker, National Audubon Society's President. My phone extension had become mistaken with the organization's main number and suddenly I was being bombarded by fans of conservative radio host Michael Reagan. On one of his shows and in a subsequent column, Reagan directed his listeners to call Flicker, along with the presidents of EarthJustice and The Natural Resources Defense Council, and implore them to stop opposing domestic oil and gas drilling:
If you want to drill in Alaska or the Gulf of Mexico or in the continental U.S.--where billions of gallons of petroleum are just waiting to be tapped--or build refineries, these three people stand in your way.
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