Ginny Wood

**Virginia Hill Wood** (24 ga Oktoba, 1917 - 8 ga Maris, 2013) ta kasance mai fafutukar kare muhalli ta Amurka kuma majagaba a cikin ƙungiyar kare muhalli ta Alaska. Ginny Wood ta haɗu ta kafa Ƙungiyar Kare Muhalli ta Alaska a 1960 tare da mijinta na lokacin, Morton "Woody" Wood. 

## Tarihin Rayuwa

### Rayuwar farko da iyali
An haifi Virginia Hill Wood a Moro, Oregon, ga Charles Edwin Hill, wani mai kula da gona na gwaji, da kuma Edythe née Brunquist Hill, malamin makaranta, a ranar 24 ga Oktoba, 1917. Mahaifinta ya fito ne daga wani iyali mai arziki daga Springfield, Massachusetts, wanda ake kyautata zaton yana da alaƙa da James Garfield, yayin da mahaifiyarta ta girma a Boston a matsayin 'yar baƙi 'yan Sweden. Kawun Wood, Ernest Brunquist ƙwararren masanin ilimin halayyar ɗan adam ne kuma masanin tsirrai, wanda ya yi aiki a matsayin mai kula da tarihi a Gidan Tarihi na Tarihi na Denver .   Iyayenta sun haɗu ne yayin da suke halartar Jami'ar Jihar Oregon, kuma suna da wata 'ya mace, Marjorie, bayan Wood. Ba da daɗewa ba bayan haihuwar Wood, dangin sun ƙaura zuwa Waterville, Washington .

Wood ta fara sha'awar ayyukan waje kamar hawa dutse, kamun kifi, hawa rafting a kogi da hawa dawaki a lokacin yarintarta, kuma iyalinta sun shafe lokacin bazara da yawa a wani gida a tafkin Chelan .  Tun tana matashiya, ta yi aiki a matsayin mai ba da shawara kan sansani da kuma jagorar yawon shakatawa a gonaki. 

Bayan kammala karatun sakandare, Wood ta yi rajista a Kwalejin Jihar Washington da ke Pullman (wanda yanzu ita ce Jami'ar Jihar Washington ), amma ta tafi a shekarar 1938, bayan shekara guda, don yin tafiye-tafiye zuwa Turai.  Bayan haka, ta yi bazara ta 1939 tana aiki a Campfire Girls a arewacin New York, kafin ta ci gaba da karatunta a Washington.

### Harkokin Jirgin Sama
Jirginta na farko yana da shekaru 4, tana zaune a cinyar mahaifinta tare da matukin jirgin barnstorming a wurin sarrafawa.  A lokacin da take babbar jami'a a Jami'ar Washington, ta shiga Sabis na Horar da Matukin Jirgin Sama na Farar Hula, inda ta ci jarrabawar shiga gasa don zama ɗaya daga cikin mata biyar a cikin shirin.  Bayan kammala shirin, Wood ta yi ƙoƙarin samun lasisin jirgin sama na kasuwanci, amma ta yi fama da rashin isa ga sa'o'in da ake buƙata na lokacin tashi bayan harin da aka kai a Pearl Harbor ya hana tashi da farar hula. Ta ci gaba da karatun Turanci a Jami'ar Washington kuma ta yi aiki a matsayin mai sintiri a kan dusar ƙanƙara da direban babbar mota a gefe kafin kawarta, Barbara Erickson, ta shawo kanta ta shiga ƙungiyar Mata Masu Aikin Sojan Sama (WASP) don koyar da jirgin sama a 1943.  Wood ta yi horo na tsawon watanni biyar a Sweetwater, Texas a ƙarƙashin Jacqueline Cochran da Nancy Love, kafin a ba ta Sashen Jiragen Ruwa na Shida a Long Beach, California .  

An wargaza rundunar WASP a watan Disamba na shekarar 1944, jim kaɗan kafin ƙarshen Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu, kuma an ba mata matukan jirgin sama matsayin soja saboda aikinsu na baya-bayan nan a shekarar 1977. &#x5B; ** &#x5D;

Bayan yaƙin, ta yi jigilar jiragen kaya da jiragen yaƙi marasa amfani zuwa Alaska, sannan ta yi gwajin jiragen yawon buɗe ido daga Fairbanks zuwa Kotzebue, Alaska tare da Wien Airlines . [1] [2] Ta kuma koma Turai don yin rangadin keke na biyu a 1948 tare da Celia M. Hunter, wata matukin jirgin WASP. [3] A farkon shekarun 1950, Wood da mijinta sun sayi jirgin Cessna 170 da aka yi amfani da shi, kuma suka ɗauki masu yawon buɗe ido zuwa Fairbanks. [4]

## Manazarta