PDX 2 Gulf Coast Member Featured in Nature Conservancy Oregon’s 2010 Annual Report

Congrats to one of our team members, April Ann Fong, who was recently featured in Nature Conservancy Oregon’s 2010 Annual Report.

She thought she was prepared. Witnessing the environmental and cultural effects of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster would be difficult. That was a given. It was the awe that caught April Ann Fong off guard.

A biology instructor and long-time Conservancy volunteer, Fong traveled as part of PDX to Gulf Coast — a team of Oregonians who went to Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama this summer. They went to hear — and share — stories from people whose ways of life had been impacted by the devastating spill.

People heard and places seen were many, but one special  day stands out in Fong’s memory: a day spent moving a  nest of loggerhead turtle eggs found while the female was still laying them.

Click here to read the full article (begins on page 5).