Category: People Stories
It doesn’t require a hero to do something heroic! There is great merit even in small acts of water-mindfulness — because of the acts themselves and because of the kind of people it makes us. —H2O IQ editor
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Vance Kennedy: Farmland trust founder, longtime water expert turns 100
Photo: Turlock’s Jeani and John Ferrari —2021 awardees of the California Farmland Trust’s Dr. Vance Kennedy Award — wish Kennedy well during his 100th birthday celebration in May (Photo contributed). For those who care about water, or farmland preservation, or climate catastrophes, the name Vance Kennedy might ring a bell or two. After all, he…
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Finding his calling: Nick Stanley’s journey to leadership
Photo: Nick Stanley smiles while standing in front of a field of yellow wildflowers. Photo by Vanessa Morales, USFWS. During his childhood summers in Fort Worth, Texas, Nicholas Stanley would regularly get woken up by his grandmother for full days of fishing. She would strap down five long cane poles on top of her minivan…
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Combining Science with Poetry to Protect Post-Fire Forests: the Activism of Maya Khosla
Photo: Jessica Layton. Maya Khosla has been selected to receive the Fund for Wild Nature’s Grassroots Activist Award for 2023. Maya’s environmental activism involves a remarkable mixture of her roles as a scientist, filmmaker, and award-winning writer that has led to her being a prominent voice in the protection of post-fire forests. Maya was born…
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The Wild Ones
People said that women had no place in the Grand Canyon and would likely die trying to run the Colorado River. In 1938, two female scientists set out to prove them wrong. Prologue The river had cut into the plateau, or else the plateau had risen around the river. No one could say for sure…
