Family history and early childhood, Berkeley; B.A. Mills College, 1934, art and museum studies, Harvard, museum work, San Francisco; marriage to Malcolm Millard, life in Chicago and Carmel; influential writers, naturalists; art studies, techniques, and exhibitions; marriage to Nathaniel Owings, life in California and New Mexico; conservation issues: San Jose Creek Beach, Carmel, 1952, Committee to Save the Sea Lion, 1959; State Park Commission member, 1963-1969, saving the redwoods; Big Sur master planning and preservation; Defenders of Wildlife board, 1969-1974; Friends of the Sea Otter: founding, goals, working with state and federal wildlife agencies, 1968-1989; mountain lion preservation: lion studies, bounty legislation, politics, 1962-1989; reflections on Georgia O'Keeffe, Wallace and Mary Stegner, Henry Moore, Rachel Carson, Robinson and Una Jeffers, Dylan Thomas, Judith Anderson, Jane Goodall, Evelyn and Amyas Ames, Loren Eiseley, Robert Redford, Adlai Stevenson, George and Gerry Lindsay, Paul Winter, Ian McMillan, Sigurd Olson, Archibald MacLeish, Starker Leopold. Appended speeches: Sierra Club Wilderness Conference, 1965, and North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference, 1972; writings from The Otter Raft.