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=Early life and education= Peterson was born Yancey Ellen Salisbury in Charlotte, North Carolina on December 5, 1923 to Sehlby Walker Salibsury and Yancey Long. She was a 1945 graduate of the University of Georgia and earned a master's degree in counseling from Appalachian State University in 1966.

=Career= Peterson founded various non-profit environmental organizations in her lifetime and was a fierce protector of Florida's waterways and the Everglades. Peterson was a well-known environmental, and peace and justice activist who protested against nuclear power plants and coal fired plants in the Everglades and wetlands of South Florida. She founded Save Our Creeks in Palmdale, Florida to save FishEating Creek in Glades County, Florida. In 2006, she founded the Happehatchee Center, a nonprofit corporation that held New Age spirituality classes, in Estero, Florida.