Margaret Sloan Hurchalla (née Reno; December 11, 1940 – February 19, 2022) was an American environmental activist from Florida.
Later in her career she was involved in a legal battle over her interference with a mining company, Lake Point Restoration.
[6] Hurchalla became involved in environmental activism after 650 acres (2.6 km2) of Hutchinson Island was sold to a developer in 1972 instead of being conserved.
[1] Known for her strong environmentalist views, she served on the state board of the Nature Conservancy[4] and on the Governor's Commission for a Sustainable South Florida.
[7] When Hurchalla learned that the company Lake Point Restoration, owned by George Lindemann Jr., was planning on developing a rock mining site in Martin County,[1] she wrote twenty-three emails to county commissioners expressing her objections to the plans based on environmental concerns.
Reno's Parkinson's disease made it difficult for her to speak, so Hurchalla voiced the character's longer lines.