I have been witness and participant on campaigns to save our environment for over 5 decades. I grew up being the front weight in my father’s canoe on the beautiful rivers of southern Missouri and learned on-site about the human behavior effects on our water, soil, air and wild life.
As a daughter of a founding member of MO Nature Conservancy and naturalist, I had a front row seat to formidable action to save the Gasconade and Meramec from damns, ban organochlorine pesticides and the preservation of Missouri natural sites. I’ve participated in environmental actions since adolescence from gathering signatures and volunteer at Rolla’s first recycling center, to peaceful protest arrest at nuclear test site in Nevada.
On a side jaunt, while serving my country in the navy, I was going door-to-door gathering signatures for nuclear freeze, I knocked on the door of a woman who said, “I’m 63 and I give up (on political action), nothing’s going to change.” Well, I’m 63 and I’m not giving up!
I have been witness and participant on campaigns to save our environment for over 5 decades. I grew up being the front weight in my father’s canoe on the beautiful rivers of southern Missouri and learned on-site about the human behavior effects on our water, soil, air and wild life.
As a daughter of a founding member of MO Nature Conservancy and naturalist, I had a front row seat to formidable action to save the Gasconade and Meramec from damns, ban organochlorine pesticides and the preservation of Missouri natural sites. I’ve participated in environmental actions since adolescence from gathering signatures and volunteer at Rolla’s first recycling center, to peaceful protest arrest at nuclear test site in Nevada.
On a side jaunt, while serving my country in the navy, I was going door-to-door gathering signatures for nuclear freeze, I knocked on the door of a woman who said, “I’m 63 and I give up (on political action), nothing’s going to change.” Well, I’m 63 and I’m not giving up!
Jan Dye
My name is Jan Dye, My role right now is as Treasurer for the Mid-Missouri Group, but I have had several different roles on Executive Committee over the years. Our group has done much to serve Columbia and surrounding areas. Together with our friends, we have worked hard to keep land developments from encroaching on sensitive areas, building codes up-to-date, and of course, we have kept the conversation around Climate Change issues front and center. I'd like to help our group continue this good work.
Ken Midkiff
I will continue to advocate for the same things that I have pushed for over the years: Clean Water, Clean Air, Wildlife Preservation, Family Farms and a Healthy Climate.
David Diamond
I have been living and working in Columbia for over 25 years. I was the Director of the Missouri Resource Assessment Partnership (MoRAP) at the University of Missouri until retiring last year. I am now working part time at MoRAP. I want to be active in the community, and now that I have retired, I feel like I have some time to give. MoRAP has done work on ecological systems mapping for whole states such as MO, KS, NE, OK, and TX, and smaller areas such as the East-West Gateway area (St. Louis) and the Hinkson Creek Watershed. So my expertise is in plant ecology and vegetation mapping. MoRAP also did conservation assessments and priority ranking for areas such as EPA Region 7 (IA, KS, NE, MO), the states of MO and TX, and the East-West Gateway area. MoRAP had a standing Steering Committee and a Technical Committee comprised of representatives from partner agencies, including most of the state and federal natural resource agencies who operate in Missouri, so I am familiar with the function of groups and committees.
