Lois Howes
As an avid naturalist and talented self-taught botanist, she convinced the Save the Dunes Council to make the pivotal purchase of Cowles Bog in 1953.
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Marie LeFevre Bailly
Part Odawa and part French, the highly respected and traditionally skilled Marie “Mo-nee” Bailly experienced shifting control over the Northwest Territory and the detrimental effects of manifest destiny on Indigenous American peoples.
Ella E McBride
Ella E. McBride was an internationally noted fine-art photographer, as well as an avid mountain climber, environmentalist, and civic leader.
Bel Marie Gardner
Bel Marie Williams Gardner was a teacher, police matron, and social worker who made child welfare her primary purpose and legacy.
Elsie Scott
Publish health nurse for the San Juan Islands, a remote, rural archipelago in the Salish Sea of the Pacific Northwest between the Washington mainland and Canada’s Vancouver Island.
Winifred Bartlett
Winifred Bartlett served as a driving force for the establishment of Pipestone National Monument.
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.
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.
Harriette Shelton Williams Dover
Native American activist who helped revive traditional dances, the Lushootseed language, and tribal appreciation for a proud past and was the second female elected to the Tulalip Tribes’ Board of Directors and first Tribal Council Chairwoman
Flora Richardson
American dunes preservationist