This enterprising couple had a dream: Buy millions of acres across Chile and Argentina, then donate them to create new parks
Kris McDivitt Tompkins sits before a coffee table covered with colorful maps of Chile and Argentina, talking about the controversy in the early 1990s that swirled around a place called Pumalín, in southern Chile.
With his horse in tow to ride later to his home, Mingo Avalos poles his canoe through a channel, as he and another guide lead tourists in Iberá. Tourism is a win-win: Former hunters and ranch hands like Avalos gain eco-friendly jobs; visitors learn from their intimate knowledge of the landscape.His plan to restore the ranch’s native vegetation morphed into a bigger idea.
In reality their goal at Pumalín was to buy land, create a park, and give it to the nation. But Chile had no tradition of private philanthropy outside of church and education projects. Such unfathomable generosity from a pair of Americans seemed patriarchal at best, sinister at worst. Huinay was especially sensitive because, though smallish, it stretched from border to border. If rich gringos owned that property, critics argued, the country would be cut in half.
Her aviation nickname during their years together, for communicating by radio, was “Picaflor,” Spanish for “hummingbird.” Doug Tompkins’s handle was “Águila,” meaning “eagle.” Between the two of them, more intimately, those transmuted to “Lolo” for him and “Birdie” for her. But if she is birdlike, it’s in the manner of a storm petrel, buffeted and doughty, not a. For the past few years, she has pursued alone only more fervently what they began together.
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