Margaret "Mardy" Murie has died. Conservationist Extraordinaire

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Conservationist Margaret “Mardy” Murie, considered by many the mother of the modern conservation movement, has died. She was 101.

Murie, who was instrumental in enacting the Wilderness Act and creating the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, died Sunday at her ranch in Grand Teton National Park. She was to be laid to rest during a private family ceremony, with a public memorial planned at The Murie Center on her ranch later this year. No dates were immediately announced.

Murie and her late husband, Olaus, a wildlife biologist, are credited with sowing the seeds for the 1964 Wilderness Act — which banned development on millions of acres in national forests, parks and other land — and creation of the wildlife refuge.


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