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Environmental Goals: •Stop people from taking oil out of Alaska •Make large wildlife refuge protect large areas of Alaska Challenges: •People that make towns and mining for minerals •People want to stop the refuges •Government going with the oil pipe line •Oil crisis so that the government wants to drill Steps taken: •Gave lectures •Government set a side 8.9 million acres •Made wilderness society poster Benefits: •Predator prey could be balanced •Wolves, mountain lions would not be run off this land yourself Reasons or needs: •They thought that the land should be disturbed only by foot steps Honors & Awards: •Audubon Medal (National Audubon Society) 1959 •Izaak Walton League honor Roll in Conservation 1960 •John Muir award (Sierra Club) 1963 •Aldo Leopold Memorial award (Wildlife Society) 1953 •Conservation award (American Forestry Association) 1954 Writings by Olaus: •The Elk of North America 1951 •Field Guide to Animal Tracks 1954 •Journeys to the Far North 1973 Environmental Issue/Causes: •Learned about threats human actions on animals Animals they wanted to protect: •Elk •Wolves •Mountain Lions Honors & Awards: •Cornelius Amory Pugsley Bronze Medan (American Science and Historic Reservation Society) 1954 •Robert Marshall Conservation award (Wilderness Society) 1986 •Distinguished Alumna award (University of Alaska, Fairbanks) 1967 •Audubon Medal (National Audubon Society) 1980 •John Muir award (Sierra Club) 1983 Writings by Margaret: •Two in the far North 1962 •Wapiti Wilderness 1966-with Olaus too •Island between 1978 1.jpg 3.jpg 4.jpg 5.jpg Works Cited Byrnes, Patricia. Environmental Pioneers. Minneapolis: Oliver, 1998. “Margaret Murie and Olaus J. Murie.” Biography Today: World Leaders Series Envirvomental Leaders. 1997. “Olaus and Mardy Murie.” Wilderness.net. 7 May 2008 <http://www.wilderness.net/.cfm?fuse=feature0704>. “The Wilderness Society: Profile of Margaret Murie.” Wilderness Society. 7 May 2008 <http://www.wilderness.org//_Bio.cfm>. Pictures from: http://digitalrepository.fws.gov/cdm4/results.php?CISOBOX1=murie&CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOOP1=any&CISOROOT=all