As per our current Database, Margaret Murie has been died on Oct 19, 2003 (age 101).
When Margaret Murie die, Margaret Murie was 101 years old.
| Popular As | Margaret Murie |
| Occupation | Memoirist |
| Age | 101 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Leo |
| Born | August 18, 1902 (Seattle, WA) |
| Birthday | August 18 |
| Town/City | Seattle, WA |
| Nationality | WA |
Margaret Murie’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.
Margaret Murie was born in the Year of the Tiger. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Tiger are authoritative, self-possessed, have strong leadership qualities, are charming, ambitious, courageous, warm-hearted, highly seductive, moody, intense, and they’re ready to pounce at any time. Compatible with Horse or Dog.
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.
