Mollie Beattie, first female director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, was a strong-willed, diplomatic leader. She fiercely defended the Endangered Species Act at a time when many in Congress opposed it, and she had a natural way of winning over her critics. Trained as a forester, she understood that every species is important and was vocal about paying attention to human impacts on all creatures. “When we see the snails and the mussels and the lichen in trouble, it is a signal that the ecosystems upon which we, too, depend are unravelling,” she said.
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