My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.

How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security.

My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.

The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.

I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.

Preserving a river or a creek can bring a lot of revenue.

My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.