Dr Estella Leopold
As a conservationist, she is best known for her work obtaining protection for the stunning fossils near Florissant, Colorado, an area that became a national monument in 1969.
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Kathy Fletcher
American biologist and environmental activist
Gertrude Sanford Legendre
In 1944, she became the first American woman in uniform to be captured in Germany during an unauthorized visit to the front near Luxembourg.
Ailsa Macvey Swan
Ailsa Swan began her scientific career in the chemistry. She was later and active member of the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria, the Bird Observers Club of Australia and was founding member of the Phillip Island Conservation Society.
Frances Andrews
Frances Andrews worked as an advocate for social justice, education, and conservation in the early twentieth century.
Alice Gray
In 1915, Alice Gray’s extraordinary life took a twist when she shunned the conventional world to live along Indiana’s wild shore.
Andrea Mead Lawrence
Andrea Mead first competed in the Olympics, at just age 15, in the 1948 Olympics.
Dorothy Richardson Buell
Inspired by women’s success to conserve a state park and motivated by looming industrialization, the dignified Dorothy Buell rallied public support and was instrumental in the battle to establish a national park in the Indiana Dunes.
Alice Tripp
A self-proclaimed “jumper-inner,” Alice Tripp made her mark as a grassroots activist and self-taught farmer. She was a key leader of a movement opposing the CU Powerline, which began construction on western Minnesota farmland in the early 1970s.
Meridel Le Sueur
For more than seventy years, the Minnesota-based writer and activist Meridel Le Sueur was a voice for oppressed peoples worldwide. Beginning in the 1920s, she championed the struggles of workers against the capitalist economy, the efforts of women to find their voices and their power, the rights of American Indians to their lands and their cultures, and environmentalist causes.