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Mary Louise Blackwood Lynch
Description
Mary Lynch was the editor and publisher of the Hudspeth County Herald and Dell Valley Review, based in Dell City. She was also active in environmental matters through her family’s work with Alert Citizens for Environmental Safety and the Hudspeth Directive for Conservation. Mrs. Lynch joined her media role and her conservation concerns in the newspaper’s years of steady coverage of a plan to ship low-level radioactive waste to a disposal site near Sierra Blanca. This scrutiny and publicity helped build a grassroots response to risks related to an active fault line, aquifer vulnerabilities, violations of the 1983 La Paz Agreement, and injustice for a poor, small and predominantly Mexican-American community. As an ultimate consequence of the newspaper’s reporting and commentary, The Texas Natural Resources Conservation Commission denied the site’s permit in 1998.
Location Notes
Given her leadership role at the Hudspeth County Herald and Dell Valley Review, one good site for a marker in Mrs. Lynch's memory could be at the newspaper's former offices, at 290 Trail West Park, in Dell City, Texas.
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Mary Louise Lynch, Oral history interview. March 29, 2001, Dell City, Texas, Reel 2139. Texas Legacy Project. Conservation History Association of Texas.