Jean Taylor
Jean Taylor was generally described in her lifetime as an entomologist but, although that was the source of her expertise, perhaps today she might be considered to have been an applied biologist or bio-engineer.
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Minna Hall
In 1896, co-founded the Massachusetts Audubon Society
Karen Dorn Steele
Karen Dorn Steele is an environmental journalist best known for breaking the story of nuclear experiments causing potential public health damage at the Hanford Nuclear Site.
Elizabeth Thatcher Kent
American suffragist and environmentalist
Lee Botts
American defender of clean water and inspiring environmentalist.
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.
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.
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.