Topic: Keeping the Chattahoochee
Bio: Sally Bethea is the retired founding director of Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, an environmental advocacy organization established in 1994 whose mission is to protect and restore the Chattahoochee River, its tributaries and watershed. She has an undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master’s degree in city and regional planning from Georgia Tech—as well as more than forty years of experience in environmental issues and nonprofit management. After retiring, Sally taught a graduate course in water resources planning at Georgia Tech. Since 2015, she has written a monthly column for Atlanta INtown paper called “Above the Waterline.”
“Sally Bethea’s book is a marvel. She interweaves close observations of the life of the river and forests with political history. Her stories are always inspiring. The level of corruption and back-stabbing from those who want to keep poisoning the river is shocking, yet despite sometimes long odds, she and her colleagues achieve remarkable victories. I highly recommend the book to all who want to celebrate the living waters of our world and to understand what it takes to protect them.” David George Haskell, author of Sounds Wild and Broken, The Forest Unseen, and More.
Her book Keeping the Chattahoochee is available at the University of Georgia Press bookstore.
