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Title: Lisa O'Donnell oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-020369
Creator: Todd, David, 1959-
Contributor: O'Donnell, Lisa (Biologist), Conservation History Association of Texas
Topic: Golden-cheeked warbler, Animals
Dates: 2022-06-30
Resource: Conservation History Association of Texas, Texas Fauna Project records
Description: Oral history of Lisa O'Donnell conducted by David Todd on June 30, 2022. O'Donnell is an endangered species biologist who has worked for DLS Associates, a private consultant, and also for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the City of Austin. In this interview, she discusses her work studying and helping restore rare Hill Country wildlife, including the golden-cheeked warbler and black-capped vireo.

Title: Liz Smith oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-020432
Creator: Todd, David, 1959-
Contributor: Smith, Liz (Conservationist), Conservation History Association of Texas
Topic: Whooping crane, Animals
Dates: 2020-06-10
Resource: Conservation History Association of Texas, Texas Fauna Project records
Description: Oral history of Dr. Liz Smith conducted by David Todd on June 10, 2020. Dr. Smith is Director of the North America Program for the International Crane Foundation. She previously worked as a research scientist for the Center for Coastal Studies at Texas A&M University. In this interview, she discusses her efforts to protect the whooping crane.

Title: Louis Harveson oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-020394
Creator: Todd, David, 1959-
Contributor: Harveson, Louis A., Conservation History Association of Texas
Topic: Puma, Animals
Dates: 2021-03-04
Resource: Conservation History Association of Texas, Texas Fauna Project records
Description: Oral history of Dr. Louis Harveson conducted by David Todd on March 4, 2021. Dr. Harveson is a wildlife biologist, a professor at Sul Ross State University, and the founder and director of the Borderlands Research Institute. In this interview, he discusses his research on mountain lions in South Texas.

Title: Louise Chambers oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-020355
Creator: Todd, David, 1959-
Contributor: Chambers, Louise (Conservationist), Conservation History Association of Texas
Topic: Purple martin, Animals
Dates: 2022-08-09
Resource: Conservation History Association of Texas, Texas Fauna Project records
Description: Oral history of Louise Chambers conducted by David Todd on August 9, 2022. Chambers is a purple martin student, steward, advocate and educator based in Corpus Christi. For more than a quarter century, she worked for the Purple Martin Conservation Association, and has promoted martins through educating visitors and summer campers at the South Texas Botanical Gardens and Nature Center. She discusses her work with the purple martin throughout this interview.

Title: Luis Jaime Pena oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-020381
Creator: Todd, David, 1959-
Contributor: Pena, Luis Jaime (Biologist), Conservation History Association of Texas
Topic: Lepidochelys kempii, Reptiles, Animals
Dates: 2021-05-20
Resource: Conservation History Association of Texas, Texas Fauna Project records
Description: Oral history of Luis Jaime Pena conducted by David Todd on May 20, 2021. Pena is a biologist and Wildlife Care Manager at the Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi. Previously, he served as Curator of Conservation Programs at the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville, Texas. In this interview, he discusses his work coordinating the Kemp's Ridley Binational Project, which protects and restores ridley nesting on Mexican shores.

Title: Lynda Watson oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-020344
Creator: Todd, David, 1959-
Contributor: Watson, Lynda, Conservation History Association of Texas
Topic: Black-tailed prairie dog, Animals
Dates: 2022-02-04
Resource: Conservation History Association of Texas, Texas Fauna Project records
Description: Oral history of Lynda Watson conducted by David Todd on February 4, 2022. With her firm, P.M.S. Recycled Vermin, Watson has relocated over 200,000 unwanted prairie dogs to protected areas. Watson discusses this work in the interview along with other details of her life and career.

Title: Lynn Cuny oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-020393
Creator: Todd, David, 1959-
Contributor: Cuny, Lynn Marie, 1951-, Conservation History Association of Texas
Topic: Puma, Animals
Dates: 2021-03-29
Resource: Conservation History Association of Texas, Texas Fauna Project records
Description: Oral history of Lynn Cuny conducted by David Todd on March 29, 2021. Cuny is the founder and president of Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation, a non-profit that provides rescue, rehabilitation, and release to orphaned, injured and displaced wildlife. In this interview, she discusses her life and career and work with mountain lions who have been kept as pets, guard animals, and exhibits.

Title: María Limón oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-004029
Creator: Ramos, Alicia
Contributor: Limón, María, 1958- (Writer)
Topic: Mexican American women, Civil rights, Gay liberation movement, Lesbian activists, AIDS activists
Dates: 1980-08
1992-12-31
2021-02-26
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral history of María Limón conducted by Alicia Ramos on February 26th, 2021. In the interview, Limón focuses on describing her involvement in the broader Chicano Movement from 1980 to 1983, and her involvement in broader activism from 1985 to around 1991. In particular, Limón discusses her involvement and relationship with the Brown Berets in 1983, during the Anti-KKK Rally in Austin, and the aftermath of her being beaten by the police alongside Paul Hernandez and Adela Mancias. She later goes on to discuss her involvement with the formation of the Austin Latino/a Lesbian Gay Organization, or ALLGO, from 1985 to 1988 and the later response to the HIV/AIDs epidemic. Limón discusses her involvement from 1988 to 1991 in environmental activism with the Foundation for a Compassionate Society and discusses her continued activism around the problem of domestic violence.

Title: Mark Mitchell oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-020341
Creator: Todd, David, 1959-
Contributor: Mitchell, Mark (Biologist), Conservation History Association of Texas
Topic: Black-tailed prairie dog, Animals
Dates: 2022-02-21
Resource: Conservation History Association of Texas, Texas Fauna Project records
Description: Oral history of Mark Mitchell conducted by David Todd on February 21, 2022. Mitchell is a wildlife biologist who serves as Manager at the Mason Mountain Wildlife Management Area. In this interview, he discusses his life, career, and experience working to reintroduce the black-tailed prairie dog to the Mason Mountain Wildlife Management Area.

Title: Mark Mitchell oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-020342
Creator: Todd, David, 1959-
Contributor: Mitchell, Mark (Biologist), Conservation History Association of Texas
Topic: Black-tailed prairie dog, Animals
Dates: 2022-02-21
Resource: Conservation History Association of Texas, Texas Fauna Project records
Description: Oral history of Mark Mitchell conducted by David Todd on February 21, 2022. Mitchell is a wildlife biologist who serves as Manager at the Mason Mountain Wildlife Management Area. In this interview, he discusses his life, career, and experience working to reintroduce the black-tailed prairie dog to the Mason Mountain Wildlife Management Area.

Title: Mark Mitchell oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-021018
Creator: Todd, David, 1959-
Contributor: Mitchell, Mark (Biologist), Conservation History Association of Texas
Topic: Black-tailed prairie dog, Animals
Dates: 2022-02-21
Resource: Conservation History Association of Texas, Texas Fauna Project records
Description: Oral history of Mark Mitchell conducted by David Todd on February 21, 2022.

Title: Mary Anne Weber oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-020356
Creator: Todd, David, 1959-
Contributor: Weber, Mary Anne (Educator), Conservation History Association of Texas
Topic: Eastern screech owl, Animals
Dates: 2020-07-02
Resource: Conservation History Association of Texas, Texas Fauna Project records
Description: Oral history of Mary Anne Weber conducted by David Todd on July 2, 2020. Weber has worked at the Houston Audubon Society as their Education Director for over 20 years. In this interview, she discusses her educational work and explains the impact of rodenticides on raptors, particularly screech owls.

Title: Mary Ruth Holder oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-020407
Creator: Todd, David, 1959-
Contributor: Holder, Mary Ruth (Lawyer), Conservation History Association of Texas
Topic: Red-cockaded woodpecker, Animals
Dates: 2021-08-27
Resource: Conservation History Association of Texas, Texas Fauna Project records
Description: Oral history of Mary Ruth Holder, an environmental attorney, conducted by David Todd on August 27, 2021. Holder's cases have included prosecution of air and water quality violations and efforts to ensure that safe drinking water was provided to colonias in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. In this interview, she discusses her role in the litigation to protect the red-cockaded woodpecker.

Title: Mary Van Kerrebrook oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-020414
Creator: Todd, David, 1959-
Contributor: Van Kerrebrook, Mary (Lawyer), Conservation History Association of Texas
Topic: Red-cockaded woodpecker, Animals
Dates: 2020-05-16
Resource: Conservation History Association of Texas, Texas Fauna Project records
Description: Oral history of Mary Van Kerrebrook conducted by David Todd on May 16, 2020. Kerrebrook is an attorney who has volunteered on a number of conservation efforts, including formation of the Katy Prairie Conservancy and service on the boards of the Texas Conservation Alliance and National Wildlife Federation. In this interview, she recalls her work on the litigation to protect the red-cockaded woodpecker from clearcutting in the national forests of Texas.

Title: Melanie Anderson oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-020392
Creator: Todd, David, 1959-
Contributor: Anderson, Melanie (Grantmaker), Conservation History Association of Texas
Topic: Puma, Animals
Dates: 2021-04-22
Resource: Conservation History Association of Texas, Texas Fauna Project records
Description: Oral history of Melanie Anderson conducted by David Todd on April 22, 2021. Anderson has served as a grantmaker in the animal protection program at the Summerlee Foundation of Dallas since 1989. She and the Foundation focus their support on understanding and protecting bobcats, coyotes, black bears and mountain lions. She discusses these efforts in the interview.

Title: Mike Montagne oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-020329
Creator: Todd, David, 1959-
Contributor: Montagne, Mike (Biologist), Conservation History Association of Texas
Topic: Paddlefish, Animals
Dates: 2020-07-20
Resource: Conservation History Association of Texas, Texas Fauna Project records
Description: Oral history of Mike Montagne conducted by David Todd on July 20, 2020. Montagne a biologist and project leader for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in San Marcos, Texas. This interview covers Montagne's life and career and his work on the restoration of paddlefish.

Title: Mike Morrow oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-020333
Creator: Todd, David, 1959-
Contributor: Morrow, Mike (Biologist), Conservation History Association of Texas
Topic: Attwater's prairie chicken, Animals
Dates: 2021-01-08
Resource: Conservation History Association of Texas, Texas Fauna Project records
Description: Oral history of Mike Morrow conducted by David Todd on January 8, 2021. Morrow is a wildlife biologist at the Attwater's Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge. In this interview, he discusses his life and career and his work restoring the Attwater's prairie chicken.

Title: Mitch Sternberg oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-020402
Creator: Todd, David, 1959-
Contributor: Sternberg, Mitch (Biologist), Conservation History Association of Texas
Topic: Ocelot, Animals
Dates: 2022-05-31
Resource: Conservation History Association of Texas, Texas Fauna Project records
Description: Oral history of Mitch Sternberg conducted by David Todd on May 31, 2022. Sternberg is a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He has worked at Aransas, Laguna Atascosa, Lower Rio Grande Valley, and the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuges. In this interview, he discusses his efforts involving the ocelot, including work on monitoring populations, managing habitat restorations, building road underpasses, and organizing restoration plans.

Title: Modesta Treviño oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-003944
Creator: Simpson, Felicia
Contributor: Treviño, Modesta
Topic: Mexican American women, Hispanic American women
Dates: 1968
1979
2017-10-25
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral History of Modesta Trevino conducted by Felicia Simpson on October 25, 2017. Discusses her time as an activist participating in the Texas Farmworker's movement while a student at the University of Texas and beyond. Moves into discussion of Latino/a art exhibitions and organizing as a way to express ideas, identity and discontent

Title: Myron Hess oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-020429
Creator: Todd, David, 1959-
Contributor: Hess, Myron (Lawyer), Conservation History Association of Texas
Topic: Whooping crane, Animals
Dates: 2020-06-08
Resource: Conservation History Association of Texas, Texas Fauna Project records
Description: Oral history of Myron Hess conducted by David Todd on June 8, 2020. Hess is an environmental attorney based in Austin who has worked in private practice, as well as at Texas Parks and Wildlife, and the National Wildlife Federation. In this interview, he discusses his involvement in legal efforts to protect instream and estuarine flows to support wildlife, including the whooping crane.

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