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- Florence A. Merriam Bailey
- Rachel Carson
- Herma Albertson Baggley
- Margaret Murie
- Caroline Dormon
- Annie Montague Alexander
- Anna Botsford Comstock
- Ynes Mexia
- Celia Hunter
- Hallie Daggett
Florence Merriam Bailey was an ornithologist and nature writer who became one of the earliest advocates for the protection of wildlife. Working in the late 19th and early 20th century, Bailey studied birds in nature, focusing on their behaviors rather than on their colors and feather patterns. She was also instrumental in the expansion of the Audub...
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. She eventually rose to oversee a team of writers for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. She also contributed articles to newsp...
Herma A. Baggley grew up in Iowa but studied botany in Idaho and spent her professional career in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park. When she joined the National Park Service (NPS) in the early 1930s, she was the first full-time female naturalist. Putting her botany knowledge to work, Baggley co-wrote a guidecalled "Plants of Yellowstone National...
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. During her life, she worked as a consultant for the NPS, the Sierra Club, ...
Caroline "Carrie" Dormon turned her degree in literature into a job as a public relations representative with the Louisiana forestry department. Using opportunities provided by this job, she convinced the federal government to reserve land for a national forest in her home state. The result? Kisatchie National Forest was established in 1930. Howeve...
Annie Montague Alexander was born in Hawaii into a family that made their fortune with sugar. In her younger years, she traveled widely, training as a painter in Paris and studying nursing. Eventually, she became interested in paleontology. She used her wealth to help fund expeditions, but unlike other benefactors, she accompanied the scientists as...
Anyone who enjoyed taking nature field trips in school owes a debt of gratitude to Anna Botsford Comstock. Though she is best known for her nature illustrations, Comstock also pushed for outdoor education in public schools in New York after seeing how well her students at Cornell University — where she was the institution's first female professor —...
Ynes Mexia proved that it's never too late to start a new career. Mexia was born in 1870, but she did not begin collecting plants until age 55. The child of a Mexican diplomat and an American housewife, Mexia spent part of her youth in Mexico City caring for her father. She married twice, was widowed and divorced, and had a career as a social worke...
Celia Hunter grew up on a farm in a family of Quakers. She struggled through the Great Depression but eventually became a pilot for the Women's Airforce Service Pilotsduring World War II. Her flying career included ferrying advanced fighter planes from factories to Air Force bases. After the war ended, Hunter spent time in Alaska, toured war-ravage...
Herma Baggley was the first female naturalist hired by the NPS, but two decades before she began working at Yellowstone, Hallie Daggett was the first woman to work as a fire lookout for the U.S. Forest Service. Born in 1878, Daggett was a consummate outdoorswoman who could hunt, fish, and survive in the wild. She needed these skills for her job spo...
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1. Margaret “Mardy” Murie (1902 - 2003) 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.
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An engaging blend of conservation stories and humorous, personal anecdotes from Philippa Forrester about women who, like her, choose to live and work in the wild. Surviving in the wilderness has long been associated with men, and traditionally conservation and environmental biology have been male-dominated subjects.
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