Return to Cape Horn
TPL volunteer Nancy Russell helped pass a landmark statute to protect her beloved Columbia River Gorge. Then her work really began.
TPL "Land&People", Spring/Summer 2009
One sparkling morning last fall, a chartered ambulance arrived at the Portland, Oregon, home of Nancy Russell to take her on a journey to the Columbia River Gorge. The gorge -- an iconic natural feature of the Pacific Northwest -- had been a favorite haunt of Russell's since she began prowling its slopes in search of wildflowers 40 years earlier. In the 1970s, she spearheaded a grassroots conservation effort and founded the nonprofit Friends of the Columbia Gorge (known locally as "Friends") to fight inappropriate development and lobby for federal protection of this remarkable landscape at Portland's front door.
READ THE STORY AND SEE THE STUNNING PHOTOGRAPHS AT TPL's website. Just go to page 22 in the easy digital reader.
