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Murie, Margaret American naturalist and conservationist Margaret (“Mardy”) Murie at her home in Moose, Wyoming, U.S., July 8, 1990.

Margaret Murie

American naturalist, conservationist, and writer
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Also known as: Mardy Murie, Margaret Thomas
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Also called:
Mardy Murie
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Margaret Thomas
Born:
August 18, 1902, Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Died:
October 19, 2003, Moose, Wyoming (aged 101)

Margaret Murie (born August 18, 1902, Seattle, Washington, U.S.—died October 19, 2003, Moose, Wyoming) 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.” When Murie was a young girl, her family moved from Seattle to Fairbanks, Alaska, where her stepfather had been appointed an assistant U.S. attorney. In 1924 she became the first woman to graduate from the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines (now the University of Alaska, Fairbanks), earning a degree in ...(100 of 581 words)

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