Margaret "Mardy" Murie spent her childhood in the pioneer town of Fairbanks, Alaska, and was the first woman to graduate from the University of Alaska in 1924. She spent her honeymoon with husband Olaus Murie on a 550-mile dog sled expedition. Her long life was studded with pioneering milestones. She and Olaus Murie played key roles in setting the course of American conservation. Speaking, traveling, publishing, and testifying, she was a governing council member of the Wilderness Society, founder of the Teton Science School, and was instrumental in the passage of the Alaska Lands Act.
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