Naturalist Richard Coleman, 59
Posted: Sunday, July 20th, 2003 9:54 pmRichard Coleman, a founder of the Florida chapter of the Sierra Club who was as passionate an outdoorsman as he was a protector of the outdoors, died Friday in a head-on airboat collision. He was 59.
Mr. Coleman, of Winter Haven, worked for nearly 20 years fighting for restoration of the Kissimmee River and then watching the project’s progress hawk-like once it started.
He was reportedly piloting an airboat in the Dead River, a serpentine waterway in Central Florida, when he collided with another airboat. … Read full obituary
