Law gives society a structure and extends protection to all people, not just one class. I'm passionate about making sure of that protection. Years of classes in ornithology, zoology and resource management stand between then and now. But, grinning, Short confesses her current work makes her feel just as excited as those safari cards did. After Short graduated from the University of Arizona in 1996, she worked in southeast Arizona's Saguaro National Park.
Research funded by the prestigious award is likely to influence national park policy.
Short sees prescribed burns as a unique laboratory opportunity. In pre-burn inventories, Short has collected about eighty families of insects. It's too early to say how fire impacts the insects and the birds that eat them. I think people are waiting for the answers. Beth Judy has completed a biography of a woman bronc rider.