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in early 2007, Paul's retirement led him to
Southern Utah where he became involved in conservation issues revolving around water and public land issues. He served as Executive Director of Citizens for Dixie's Future (later renamed Conserve Southwest Utah), from 2008 to 2010, ran for Washington County Commissioner in 2014 on a “conservation” platform in a very conservative area of Utah, and was called upon at various times to testify for Congress on these issues.
237:(LDS Church) for a good deal of his life. In 1957 he served a missionary for the LDS Church in the Netherlands. There he witnessed how people lived in an “environmentally-friendly” manner and with great acceptance of different life-styles, which affected his philosophy of life from then on. Later in life, he resigned from the church.
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Paul married Mary Lynne Palmer of
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During Paul's early years, he worked as an iron worker, following in his father's footsteps. That work taught Paul lessons: the value of the work, how hard it was, and that he didn't want to grow old doing it. Serving as a court reporter in a JAG unit during his military service caught his interest
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Cold fusion at the
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In 2016, after having resigned as executive director of the organization but remaining as an advisor, he was asked to give testimony at a
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The abortion issue toward the end of his term proved very challenging when the state wanted to pass an anti-abortion law. He told them the law would be unconstitutional. As he was a
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An antitrust suit involving the
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