Dean Wilson is willing to put his life on the line to protect the nation’s largest swamp. By “standing between the loggers and the cypress,” he has saved the Atchafalaya Basin in Louisiana more than once. Wilson is executive director and basinkeeper of Atchafalaya Basinkeeper, an organization he founded in 2004 to protect and restore the basin. The group is a member of Waterkeeper Alliance, founded by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.