CHAMPIONS OF CONSERVATION

Saving wild turkeys, protecting Venus flytraps, cleaning up rivers, cultivating the crops of tomorrow, and more—the heroic efforts of these ten undersung scientists, advocates, and innovators are helping defend the South’s imperiled ecosystems

Presented by: GARDEN & GUN, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH EXPLORE ASHEVILLE

Learn more: WATCH VIDEOS OF THE CHAMPIONS IN ACTION AT GARDENANDGUN.COM/CHAMPIONSOFCONSERVATION Champion of: CLEAN WATER WATER WARRIOR Long before Atlanta’s South River became a political flash point, Jacqueline Echols began fighting to conserve the waterway Name: JACQUELINE ECHOLS Location: ATLANTA, GA Expertise: ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM Advocating Since: 1997 After thirteen years as president of Atlanta’s South River Watershed Alliance, Jacqueline Echols is used to dirty work: monitoring E. coli levels, hauling tires from the sandy river bottom, clashing with polluters in court. Still, she marvels at the mess that still surrounds the little waterway she pledged to protect. “It’s a quarter of an inch on a map, if that,” Echols says of the South River, a tree-lined ribbon flowing sixty miles from the city’s south side to Middle Georgia’s Jackson Lake.…

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Garden & Gun (Digital) - 1 Issue, October/November 2023

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