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Margaret Murie

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Profession
Memoirist
Died
Oct 19, 2003
Zodiac
Leo
Born in
Seattle WA
About
Known as the Grandmother of the Conservation Movement, she helped pass the Wilderness Act and create the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. She published a 1962 memoir, Two in the Far North, and was the subject of a documentary film called Arctic Dance.
Family
She was born in Seattle, Washington and moved with her family to Alaska at the age of five. she married Olaus Murie, a fellow naturalist and conservationist.

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