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 A leading spirit in the movement for protecting Sacramento's natural environment, Effie Yeaw's vision stimulated powerful support for environmental causes such as adoption of a tree control ordinance, formation of the Save the American River Association (SARA) and establishment of the American River Parkway.
During the 1950's and 1960's, she promoted appreciation for plant and animal life, protecting
our streams and preserving heritage oaks and plant seedlings. She cultivated heightened awareness, especially among  young people.
She was a teacher by trade and continued teaching about nature well into retirement; she influenced the lives ofthousands of children whom she, and those she recruited, led into the fields, woods, and river paths in search of the living worlds within the natural environment.
When Mrs. Yeaw passed away on January 3, 1970, the organizations she had served so well proposed that the planned interpretive nature center in Ancil Hoffman Park (at the time, no funds were available) be named in her honor. The Effie Yeaw Interpretive Center, erected at the edge of the natural area formerly known as Deterding Woods, was opened and formally dedicated on June 19, 1976.
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