and I really truly think that people like Laura who can get up every morning and still have that same energy to attack the same issues and fight so strongly for those issues; it's born out of a love for others," she added.

Mooney received lots of recognition including at the You're The Tops Luncheon.

She was also an Aggie Women Network Legacy Award Recipient.

"The impact that she had on saving lives her passion will live on. She might have left this earth but her passion will live forever," said Prince.

Mooney currently was working as an Associate Transportation Researcher at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute.

The City of College Station released the following statement on the passing of Laura Mooney:

With deep sadness and sorrow, the City of College Station shares theIlegally deforested mountains in Pojarna Valley, in the heart of the Romanian Carpathians are pictured on January 16, 2014

With its steep, forested mountains set against blue skies, Romania's central Pojarna Valley once looked like a postcard landscape but illegal logging has turned the site into an ugly scar.

"The guys who did this used excavators. They even destroyed the young trees," said Gheorghe Ridichie, an official at Romania's forestry ministry, pointing to thousands of stumps poking out of the valley's now-barren slopes.

Last year, authorities rallied to halt rampant deforestation in the Balkan state.

But the draft law, setting stricter controls and heavier penalties for offenders, still awaits a vote in the lower house of parliament after making it through the upper house.

Official figures show that in 2012, illegal logging in