Sunfish Pond Heroine Has Died

In her obituary, Helen Fenske is called "a lioness of the environmental movement in New Jersey." I never met her, but reading here her accomplishments, I'd have to agree. She died in on Friday, 19 January 2007, in Nashua, New Hampshire.

I'm not completely sure who the publisher of Helen Fenske's obituary by Garry Herzog is, although the title on the web page is "Recorder Community Newspapers." Under the section titled "Bernardsville News" for 20 January 2007, one can read about Mrs. Fenske's wide-ranging and influential fights on behalf of the environment.

For AT hikers, one of the most important battles she was involved with was the preservation of Sunfish Pond, in New Jersey, just north of Delaware Water Gap.

Lovely pond. Sounds like a lovely woman, too.