ELI honored the 2020 National Wetlands Awardees throughout the month of May via podcasts, blogs, videos, and other virtual programming. Check out our social media for a look at the celebration!
Watch ELI'sWebinar on Wetlands and Disaster Resilience HERE.
The National Wetlands Awardees were recognized at the start of the program.
You can also listen to the voices of our 2020 National Wetlands Awardees on an episode of ELI's People Places Planet Podcast.
During her 30-year teaching career, Sue Ellen Lyons has educated thousands of Louisiana students and citizens about the importance of wetlands and has involved them in countless conservation projects.
Don and Debbi Koeberlein have demonstrated their outstanding dedication to the protection of wetlands through several wetland restoration projects they have completed on their property and by encouraging other farmers to participate in similar activities.
Since the late-1960s, Aurora Gareiss and Virginia Michels Dent have led a series of battles to save the expansive salt marsh and freshwater wetland complexes surrounding their beloved Littleneck Bay in Queens, New York City.
As Chief Biologist of the Natural Resources Planning and Management Division for the Southeast Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission, Donald M. Reed has been a major force in environmental planning for wetlands protection in Wisconsin.