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Margaret Elizabeth Thomas "Mardy" Murie (August 18, 1902 – October 19, 2003) was a naturalist, writer, adventurer, and conservationist.
May 3, 2024 · Margaret Murie was an American naturalist, conservationist, and writer who was a central contributor in efforts to establish the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, which earned her the popular title “grandmother of the conservation movement.”
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Margaret Murie, also called Mardy Murie, neé Margaret Thomas, (born August 18, 1902, Seattle, Washington, U.S.—died October 19, 2003, Moose, Wyoming), American naturalist, conservationist, and writer who was a central contributor in efforts to establish the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, which earned her the popular title ...
Margaret E. Murie, a conservationist and an author who helped preserve millions of acres of unspoiled land in Alaska and across the United States by encouraging the creation of the Arctic...
Margaret (Mardy) Murie (1902-2003) played a key role in studying and protecting Alaska’s wild places and conservation science and policy. Mardy was born in 1902 and moved to Alaska when she was five. In 1924, she was the first woman to graduate from the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Margaret “Mardy” Murie (1902-2003) was Olaus’ wife, naturalist partner, and a pioneering female conservationist. Mardy served as an “unpaid” Fish and Wildlife Service naturalist beginning with their honeymoon in 1924, an official dogsled trip to the Brooks Range, where she cataloged mice.
Two in the Far North is a biographical novel written by Margaret Murie. Raised in Fairbanks, in the U.S. state of Alaska, and wife and companion of the biologist Olaus Murie, she tells the tale of their lives spent first living, then exploring and finally fighting for the preservation of the final wilderness frontiers of Alaska. [1]
