by Kevin Cody
Hermosa Beach resident Barbara Guild was honored by the American Shore and Beach Preservation Association (ASBPA) on Thursday, August 1, in Hermosa Beach for her work locally and in Hawaii to protecting ocean coastlines.
Guild was instrumental in the 1957 defeat of Shell Oilโs election campaign to allow offshore drilling in Hermosaโs tidelands. Five decades later, in 2015, Guild helped defeat a ballot measure that would have allowed E and B Oil to drill from the Hermosa city yard into the Hermosa tidelands.
In Maui, where she and her late husband Don spent many of their later years, she drew on her UC Berkeley engineering degree in hydraulics, to design a system to protect her beachfront Maui community from being lost to beach erosion.
The inaugural Barbara Guild Coastal Stewardship Award was presented by ASBPA Executive Director Nicole Elko.
ASBPA is dedicated to the preservation of the nationโs shores and beaches through research, education and policy efforts. The โBarbara Guild Coastal Stewardship Awardโ honor individuals who have made extraordinary contributions toward these goals. For more information, visit ASBPA.org.
