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return to the farm and resume his former duties.
500 Animals Per Month
Mr. Clark, who co-ftmnded the Wildlife Center in 1985, said his group treated five animals the first month they opened. Last May they treated 500 animals, including deer, snakes, birds, turtles and foxes.
It is the only center of its kind in the nation, and it depends entirely on ' private donations.
The work of the Wildlife Center has placed Mr. Clark among the recognized environmental leaders in the United States. He has visited the White House several times, been on the “Today Show,” spoken on “Larry King, Live” and become friends with ' actress Sissy Spacek, who helps with fundraising. In 1993, Mr. Clark received the nation’s top environmental award in a ceremony at the Kennedy Center.
Heady stuff for a guy who used to wander the hills of Rappahannock County with a hunting rifle. His mother, Peggy Clark, runs Rappahannock Realty in Flint Hill.
Mr. Clark thinks it is an advantage to have roots in a small place like Rappahannock.
“A nice part about a little school is that you know everybody and you get to do everything,” he said, recalling that RCHS’s enrollment was a third smaller in his day. “You get as much out of it as you put into it.”
After RCHS, Mr. Clark attended Bridgewater College then went into teaching for five years. In 1975, his favorite camping and hiking area in a national forest was clear-cut, which incensed him.
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