Mollie H. Beattie was an American conservationist

Conservationist

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. In 2009 she was designated a Women's History Month

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 Honoree by the National Women's History Project

National Women's History Project

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She graduated from Marymount College, Tarrytown

Marymount College, Tarrytown

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 with bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1968, and from the University of Vermont

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 with a master's degree in forestry in 1979, and from Harvard University

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 with a master's degree in public administration in 1991.
From 1993 to 1996, she served as the first woman director of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
She oversaw the successful reintroduction of the gray wolf into northern Rocky Mountains.

She was married to Rick Schwolsky.

The Mollie Beattie Wilderness

Mollie Beattie Wilderness

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 in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

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is named after her.

In the long term, the economy and the environment are the same thing.
If it's unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is the rule of nature.


-- Mollie Beattie