Irene Herlocker-Meyer
From 1967-1976 she personally led one of the state’s most politically-difficult preservation battles and saved what many consider Indiana’s highest quality prairie remnant, today’s Hoosier Prairie Nature Preserve.
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Lyudmila Bogoslovskaya
Russian biologist and environmental activist
Sylvia Troy
Shy before her involvement in saving the Indiana Dunes, nature-lover Sylvia Troy metamorphosed into an indomitable defender- wielding newly learned strength and assertiveness on behalf of a cause.
Flora Richardson
American dunes preservationist
Barbara E Plampin
After moving to Dune Acres in 1988, Barbara Plampin had time for her passion of botany, meticulously studying the Dunes’s habitats and becoming a persistent advocate for natural land preservation and an expert botanist in her own right.
Charlotte Read
Charlotte Read was a reverent guardian of public trust, who wholeheartedly committed herself to saving the Indiana Dunes from trickling to cascading threats.
Drusilla Carr
Drusilla Carr was an unwavering early woman of Miller’s lakeshore who settled in 1872 and through squatter’s rights owned today’s Marquette Park and part of Miller Woods when it was regarded as unfarmable waste sands.
Dixy Lee Ray
Marine biologist, professor at the University of Washington, and director of Seattle’s Pacific Science Center. Chair of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), from 1973 to 1975. First woman elected governor of Washington.
Emma Pitcher
Indiana dunes environmental activist
Bess Sheehan
An early staunch advocate of the first “Save the Dunes” movement of the 1910s