Florida Environmental Advocacy

Laura Reynolds has helped me obtain a valuable compromise with the State of Florida regarding all State Parks. I recommend Laura as a person who is very qualified to help protect the State and National environment. Her knowledge and experience are very important in a quest for a healthy environment.

Laura Reynolds has been devoted and tenacious advocate for the South Florida environment. Laura has a wide-ranging “network” of persons, both locally and nationally, who look to her for guidance in the area in conservation. Her dedication to the environment has been inspirational to all.

I have worked with Laura since 2009 on complex environmental cases Laura has always put water at the center of her policy agenda focusing on the connection between water and land use. For Florida these elements are key for protecting wildlife, human health and our economy. Laura is an asset to any environmental strategy or legal team, her understanding of policy and science and her ability to navigate the media and donors have helped us on what would have otherwise gone overlooked or unchallenged. She has an unwavering dedication to protecting South Florida for future generations to enjoy and we should be grateful for people who choose to fight for what is right even when it is hard and not popular.

As a Biology Professor and long-time Tropical Audubon member, I owe a huge debt to the legion of dedicated ecosystem defenders. Among these, Laura Reynolds stands out in particular. I don’t know anyone who has effectively advanced a broader array of South Florida’s environmental issues than Laura has. Laura played a key role at the Tropical Audubon Society, devoting a decade to regional conservation and science activism, and placing the Miami Audubon chapter on the list of hyper-effective environmental groups. Some people wondered why a bird-centric organization would work so hard on complex energy issues, but Laura made it clear to the public that our ecosystem starts and ends with clean water and the human processes that compete for it. Laura directed a bright spotlight on how unbridled development and energy production conflict with protection Florida’s natural waters, from the Everglades to Florida Bay. Her passion and knowledge of water issues created never-ending ripples through the environmental and political worlds as her cadre of interns graduated to become change-makers in the environmental community.