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- Margaret “Mardy” Murie
- Celia Hunter
- Rachel Carson
- Terry Tempest Williams
- Hallie M. Daggett
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas
- Herma Albertson Baggley
- Bethine Church
- Rosalie Barrow Edge
- Anne Labastille
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 h...
Celia Hunter fought alongside Mardy and Olaus Murie to safeguard the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and became the first female president of a national conservation organization - The Wilderness Society. She played a major role in the passage of legislation that protected over 100 million acres in Alaska. On her dying day she wrote a letter to Co...
Rachel Carsonwas employed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 1943, and resigned to continue her writing career in 1952. Her bestselling book Silent Spring remains a environmental classic for it raised public health concerns and highlighted the need for regulation, inspiring grassroots movements that led to the development of the U.S. Environm...
Terry Tempest Williams is a contemporary author who writes about wilderness. She received The Wilderness Society’s Robert Marshall Award in 2006, our highest honor given to citizens. When President Clinton dedicated Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah in 1996, he held up a book she’d edited - Testimony: Writers Speak On Behalf of Ut...
Hallie Daggettlearned how to hunt, fish, ride, trap and shoot early in life, skills which served her well as the first woman employed by the Forest Service. She worked as a lookout for 15 years beginning in 1913 at Eddy's Gulch Lookout Station atop Klamath Peak in California’s Klamath National Forest. It was almost a hundred years later before the ...
Marjory Douglasworked to protect the Everglades and wrote the iconic book The Everglades: River of Grass in 1947—the year Everglades National Park was established. The park contains a wilderness areas named for her legacy. "It is a woman's business to be interested in the environment. It's an extended form of housekeeping." Credit: NPS
Herma Baggleywas the first female naturalist who worked for the National Park Service. She was a pioneer in botany and natural education at Yellowstone National Park starting in 1929. She paved the way for Fran P. Mainella, who became the first woman director of the National Park Service in 2001. Credit: NPS
Bethine Church was as politically active as her husband U.S. SenatorFrank Church - no small feat. Her husband sponsored the passage of the Wilderness Act 50 years ago, and she also supported the passage of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act four years later. In their home state of Idaho, they worked for the protection of Hells Canyon National Recreatio...
Rosalie Edge was a suffragist and advocate for the preservation of birds. In 1934 she founded the first preserve for birds of prey at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary in the Appalachian Mountains and she led campaigns to protect Olympic and Kings Canyon National Parks. “The time to protect a species is while it is still common.” Credit: HawkMountain.org
Anne LaBastille was an ecologist who authored scientific papers, popular articles and books like the Woodswoman series and Women of the Wilderness. She led backpacking and canoe trips in the Adirondacks as well as wilderness workshops and lectures. She also photographed the outdoors as part of the EPA’s Documerica project in the 1970s. “Names and d...
- Florence A. Merriam Bailey. Florence Merriam Bailey was an ornithologist and nature writer who became one of the earliest advocates for the protection of wildlife.
- Rachel Carson. Rachel Carson started her career as a marine biologist for the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries. Because of her talent as a writer, she was drafted to create brochures and radio programs in addition to her regular research duties.
- Herma Albertson Baggley. Herma A. Baggley grew up in Iowa but studied botany in Idaho and spent her professional career in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.
- Margaret Murie. Margaret Murie, known to almost everyone as "Mardy" (the name she often used in her byline), grew up in Fairbanks, Alaska. She felt at home on the tundra and is best known for being the driving force behind the effort to create and expand the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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