Hazel Wolf
The writer Paul Bowles said, “Nothing just happens. It depends on who comes along.” For the Audubon Society in Washington State, that “who” was Hazel Wolf. She was a labor activist, environmental campaigner, and life-long champion of causes she believed in. From 1969 until 1997, Hazel Wolf organized Audubon chapters throughout the Pacific Northwest. She made a difference for birds including her favorite, the Brown Creeper, because someone had made a difference for her. It was a calling, though, that nearly didn’t happen...
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Hazel Wolf – Making a Difference
Written by Todd Peterson
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The writer Paul Bowles said, “Nothing just happens. It depends on who comes along.” For the Audubon Society in Washington State, that who was Hazel Wolf. She was a labor activist, environmental campaigner, and life-long champion of causes she believed in. From 1969 until 1997, Hazel Wolf organized Audubon chapters throughout the Pacific Northwest. She made a difference for birds, nature, and people, because someone had made a difference for her. It was a calling, though, that nearly didn’t happen:
One of my friends belonged to the Audubon Society, and she was always wanting me to join it. Cost a dollar. And I put her off and I put her off. I didn’t want to get committed to some such thing. Finally to shut her up I gave her a dollar. So a foot in the door. You don’t know what people are going to have a tremendous influence on your life. She’s long gone now. I often think of her, what a difference she made in my life and wonder where I would I be now if it wasn’t for Irene insisting that I join the Audubon Society.
The voice of Hazel Wolf – Learn more about her amazing contribution to birds and conservation at BirdNote.org
For BirdNote I’m Mary McCann.
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Bird sounds provided by The Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Ambient recording ‘Malheur’ recorded by G F Budney
Hazel Wolf recorded by Susan Starbuck, used by permission of UW Special Collections.
BirdNote’s theme music was composed and played by Nancy Rumbel and John Kessler.
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Executive Producer: Dominic Black
© 2015 Tune In to Nature.org Oct 2018 Narrator: Mary McCann
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