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Janet Dakin consistently promoted state and federal legislative action intended to preserve open lands for wildlife, and make it available to the public for recreational and educational purposes. She was the first chairperson of the Blue Start
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Dakin was a longtime animal advocate. She become the founding member and first president of The
Friends of Amherst's Stray Animals (FASA), later renamed the Dakin Animal Shelter, and which went on to become the Dakin Humane Society, the largest animal shelter and resource center in western
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Between 1936 and 1940, Dakin authored several published papers reflecting her studies of insect life. In the 1950s she wrote a series of articles for
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