11 Amazing Women Who Made Wilderness Conservation History

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11 Amazing Women Who Made Wilderness Conservation History
The Wilderness Society
March 26, 2014

Often working in the shadows of better-known male conservationists, female conservation leaders helped drive the twentieth century conservation movement.

In celebration of Women’s History Month, here are 11 of those women who have made a difference to America’s wild lands:

1. Margaret “Mardy” Murie (1902—2003)

Mardy Murie worked hand-in-hand with her husband Olaus Murie to accomplish important wilderness victories like the establishment and expansion of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Mardy Murie witnessed first-hand the signing of the Wilderness Act fifty years ago. She continued to fight for wilderness until her death at age 101 in 2003.

“I hope the United States of America is not so rich that she can afford to let these wildernesses pass by, or so poor she cannot afford to keep them,” Murie once said.... MORE