Women Conservationists of Washington, the Dee Arntz Collection, 1981-2015

Deirdre (Dee) Arntz is a graduate of Boston College, San Francisco State University, and the University of Washington. After graduating from college, she moved to Washington, D.C., where she worked for the Department of Housing and Urban Development before moving first to San Francisco, and then to Seattle in 1987. It was in Seattle where she began to pursue her passion for wildlife and wetlands conservation and management. In addition to her work in government and as a writer, Arntz has served as a board member of Seattle Audubon Society (including as co-founder and chair of the Society's Washington Wetlands Network), Audubon Washington, and Washington Environmental Council.