Women who made wilderness history

Women around the world have always played a significant role in environmental conservation. There have been so many throughout time that some of them tend to slip through the cracks of history and mainstream media. On this International Women’s Day, let’s push some of those names into the spotlight. These are just a few of the thousands of women who have and...

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The Discovery and Naming of Kalmiopsis leachiana

Celebrate Women’s History Month by reading about Lilla Leach, Oregon botanical pioneer: The date was June 14, 1930. Botanist Lilla Irvin Leach and her husband John, a Portland pharmacist, were descending a ridge in the Siskiyou Mountains of Curry County, Oregon. With them were two pack burros, Pansy and Violet. The four had camped the night before at a small...

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Women’s History Month: An Interview with 93-Year-Old National Park Service Ranger Betty Reid Soskin

With Women’s History Month upon us, the Department of the Interior interviewed Betty Reid Soskin, who at 93 is the oldest active ranger in the National Park Service. Great-granddaughter of a slave and a file clerk in a Jim Crow union hall during World War II, Reid-Soskin began her career with NPS at the age of 85 at Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical...

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