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WWP learned this morning (6/5) that Gloria Flora, the former Supervisor of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, was seriously injured in a head-on automobile accident near Helena, Montana on Sunday June 3, 2001. Ms. Flora's injuries include broken ribs and a broken leg as well as other unspecified injuries. She is now recovering in St. Peter's Hosptial, 2475 Broadway, Helena, Montana 59601; telephone: (406) 444-2259 (surgical ward).
Gloria Flora has achieved a deserved conservation reputation for first ending mineral leasing in the front range in Montana and then for resigning her Supervisor's position on the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest in Nevada to protest the attacks on Forest Service employees by right-wing "wise use" as well as county and state supremacy groups who became notorious for promoting the Jarbidge Wilderness Road Closure issue and the infamous "shovel brigade". WWP suggests readers might wish to send get-well cards and messages to Gloria Flora at St. Peter's Hospital in Helena.
Western Watersheds Project Online Messenger #10, June 5, 2001 |