Host Verla Fortier
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Verla's new book Optimize Your Heart Rate: BalanceYour Mind and Body With Green Space. 

Verla's previous book Take Back Your Outside Mindset: Live Longer, Stress Less, and Control Your Chronic Illness

Michelle Schuman's book: The Understory: A Female Environmentalist in the Land of the Midnight Sun

Michelle Schuman's website: https://meschumancom.wordpress.com

Your Outside  Mindset Podcast episode #36

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1:31 Michelle Schuman is an environmental scientist with over four decades of experience in Alaska working for the federal government, state government, and the private sector. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Wildlife Biology and Range Science, a minor in Soil Science and a Master’s in Environmental Policy and Wetland Restoration. Schuman is a certified Senior Ecologist and Professional Certified Wetland Scientist

Schuman is credited with writing hundreds of technical documents, including the Wetland Functional Assessment Guide for Alaska. But her greatest and hardest, accomplishment was a first responder on the Exxon Oil Spill analyzing one of the most devastating and long-term human caused disaster in North America.

She resigned from federal service in 1987, expanding her professional career into private consulting and state government in wetland science and oil spill response.

In October 2020, she began writing her memoir, The Understory: A Female Environmentalist in the Land of the Midnight Sun. A year later, she signed an option agreement with HTWIP Productions for a screenplay.

4:26 I am 66 now.  I was born in a small, rural town in eastern Washington, where I was free to explore the basalt cliffs and sagebrush fields. After receiving my undergraduate degree in wildlife biology, range management, and soil science, I married my soulmate, whom I met working in the Blue Mountains of Oregon.

4:44 Our adventure took us to California, where my husband was a mechanical engineer; and Ne

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