Margaret Murie
Memoirist
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.
She started campaigning to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in 1956, recruiting a supreme court justice to persuade President Eisenhower to close the land off to development.
She received both the Audubon Medal and the John Muir Award.
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.
She spent her honeymoon studying caribou with her husband on the Koyukuk River in Alaska. This same river inspired John Denver's ballad, A Song for All Over.