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Providing Inspiration
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PO Box 399, Moose, Wyoming 83012 • 307.739.2246 • fax 307.739.0208 • [email protected] • www.muriecenter.org
Message from Mary Gibson Scott,
Grand Teton National Park Superintendent
We rely on our partner organizations
to help support and foster Grand
Teton National Park’s mission; we
also rely on them to encourage conservation of our natural and cultural
resources, and engender the next
generation of park stewards who
will continue to preserve our Nation’s greatest treasures. Through his America’s Great Outdoors Initiative, President Obama has requested that all federal
agencies and their partners take steps to reconnect
Americans to the natural world. One of the goals of
this initiative involves introducing young people to
the wonders of the great outdoors and the values of
conservation: the admirable values that the Muries
long championed and the enduring ideals that The
Murie Center continues to advance.
As Grand Teton National Park and The Murie
Center staff develop and grow programs that reach
diverse audiences and young people, we must also
seek innovative and creative ways to capture the
hearts and minds of future conservation leaders.
Programs like Murie Kids Week help inspire youth
and engender in them respect and appreciation for
our wild places. Murie Kids Week and other programs such as the Rocky Mountain Sustainability
and Science Network also go hand in hand with new
goals laid out in Director Jon Jarvis’s “A Call to Action”— a template that advances the National Park
Service toward 2016 and a second century of stewardship and engagement. It is a strategy that charts
a course toward our second century by asking NPS
employees and their partners to commit to actions
that honor our past and cultivate a promising future.
We look forward to working with The Murie Center
to implement many of the goals outlined in “A Call
to Action”; goals that promote diversity in our national parks and engage young people in becoming
allies in conservation initiatives across America.
Through our pilot NPS Academy program this
past year, we’ve already increased our efforts to engage youth and promote diversity in our national
parks. Students in the program had the opportunity
to spend some quality time at the Murie Ranch when
they were here in March, and they were inspired by
both the Teton landscape and the Murie conservation ethos. Nearly half of the NPS Academy students
were hired in partnership with the Student Conservation Association to work here in Grand Teton
this summer. The knowledge, skills and experiences
these students received here in Grand Teton helped
them understand that everyone can get a start and
grow a career in public land agencies.
Renowned poet, Terry Tempest Williams, once
penned the words, “If you know wilderness in the
way that you know love, you would be unwilling to
let it go…This is the story of our past and it will be
the story of our future.” These are fitting words and
an appropriate acknowledgement of our shared visions and our future collaboration.
Message from the Co-Chairs
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The Murie Center has both an historic and forward-looking mission. The Center is meaningfully working in both directions with our
programming and our vision for the future.
The Murie Center is committed to engaging the next generation
of conservation leaders. In August, we hosted our second “Murie Kids
Week” at the Ranch. Ten boys—ages 12 to 14—and their chaperone from
Brooklyn, N.Y. spent a week at the Murie Ranch. The boys all came from
urban, diverse and challenging backgrounds. They were introduced to
wilderness, to Grand Teton National Park, and to dark, starry nights for
the first time. And if you were on the Ranch this summer, you saw that
we had three hard-working interns helping each day with everything
from organizing the Murie Archives to hosting visitors on Ranch tours.
For many of these kids, time on the Ranch and in the Park can be a lifealtering experience. We want to increase the number of young people
for whom that experience is possible.
At the same time we also cherish our rich history and The Murie
Center leaders who have brought us to where we are today. In July we
honored our Founding Board Chair, Addie Donnan, with a celebratory
dinner and presentation of the “Murie Spirit of Conservation Award.”
Addie and Ted are tireless supporters of many great causes throughout
Jackson Hole and the Greater Yellowstone region, but Addie has a special place in Murie Center history as founding chair and one of Mardy
Murie’s close friends who created the Center to further the conservation
legacy of the Murie family.
In the coming months, look for offerings in our Murie WILD (Wonder. Inspire. Lead. Discover.) Series. This series, created in partnership
with The Center of Wonder, has already attracted many inspiring scientists and thinkers who are presenting on important and original topics of great interest to the conservation community. The Murie Center
is on the way to becoming the venue for some of the most important
dialogues in conservation thinking today – just as it was during the Muries’ lifetimes.
We hope you will help us continue to enhance our outreach and
our connection to the conservation community in the coming year. As
we look to 2012, we will build upon our experiences of this past year
to bring conservation out of the background and onto kitchen tables
across the land, where it should become a top priority on the Nation’s
agenda. We will accomplish this through our partnership with the Park,
through The Murie Center’s originated and collaborative programs,
and through the welcoming of each visitor who wishes to explore the
Park and experience the special place that is Conservation’s Home.
Pat Baker and David Churchill
The photo of Dave was taken looking downstream on the C&O Canal in Washington,
DC. In 1954, Justice William O. Douglas challenged the editor of the Washington Post
to make a “thru-hike” of the 186 miles of the Canal to convince him it should be
preserved (it was proposed for conversion to a 4-lane parkway at the time). The nine
people who completed the hike with Douglas are known to history as “The Immortal
Nine.” One of them was Olaus Murie.
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This autumn we successfully complete another year of quality programs
at The Murie Center, deepening our partnership with Grand Teton National Park.
Thousands of visitors have been touched
by our mission: to engage people to understand and commit to the enduring value of
conserving wildlife and wild places.
We continue to inspire new ways of
thinking about conservation by promoting
ethics and values which will help guide a 21st century conservation movement. In the spring, we outlined how our programs
connected to some of our larger goals. In this newsletter we introduce new projects which complement our most successful
programs to date, while demonstrating how each is related to
our most important objectives. Whether we have designed a program or joined an effort initiated by a like-minded collaborator,
we always intend to:
ZZ Inspire conservation leadership
ZZ Advocate for large landscape conservation
ZZ Educate the public with a holistic approach to ecology and sustainability
ZZ Engage new conservationists
ZZ Connect people to wild places and encourage exploration
Furthering the Murie legacy is both an incredible opportunity and a significant responsibility. While we reflect upon and
celebrate their lasting impact on the lives of people, the protection of wild places and the survival of wildlife, The Murie Center
also moves forward vigorously to help shape human values that
will lead to a healthy balance between commerce and conservation, development and preservation, consumption and restraint.
Our Mission
The Murie Center, in partnership with Grand Teton National
Park, engages people to understand and commit to the enduring
value of conserving wildlife and wild places.
We affect change in the world of conservation through programming in three areas: conservation leadership, sciencebased conservation advocacy, and the inspirational qualities
of the Muries. We are stewards of the Murie Ranch, a National Historic Landmark. We present the Murie story to the
public through docent programs and public outreach. We
translate the Murie legacy through programs and events,
highlighting relevance to 21st century challenges. We are
grateful for your help in making this work possible.
Donnan Honored for
Conservation Work
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The inaugural Murie Center Spirit of Conservation Award
was presented on July 29th to founding board chair, Addie
Donnan, one of Jackson Hole’s most prolific conservationists.
The Murie Center Spirit of Conservation Award is presented
to an individual whose life work demonstrates a commitment
to conservation, civility and community.
The event, held at the Murie Ballroom at Hotel Terra, celebrated Donnan’s contributions to the founding of the Murie
Center in 1998, as well as her work to preserve Jackson Hole’s
wildlife and wild lands. Addie Donnan embodies many of the
same characteristics that made Mardy Murie so successful and
so beloved. Donnan’s support of Jackson Hole conservation
organizations such as the Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance
and the Teton Science Schools—as well as The Murie Center—
has helped preserve a uniquely beautiful community shared
by humans and wildlife.
Murie Center Founding Board Chair Addie Donnan was recently honored
with the inaugural Murie Center Spirit of Conservation Award. She is pictured
flanked by Murie Center Executive Director Steve Duerr, left, and currrent
Murie Center Board Co-Chair David Churchill.
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WILD Series, Place-Based Education Workshops Spark Imagination
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On
Murie Wild Series
October 4, The Murie WILD Series hosted a presentation by Dr. M. Sanjayan—lead scientist for The Nature Conservancy. Sanjayan’s “Awakening the Conservation Movement:
Stories From the Field” was inspirational, energetic
and informative. Sanjayan is well known for his ap-
Placed-Based Education Workshops
New, proactive and pre-emptive strategies are imperative to protecting and preserving the natural world. Olaus and Mardy Murie understood
the importance of engaging the next generation in this conversation and
creating new stewards of the land out of the passionate and imaginative
minds of this younger generation.
“We need to recognize the importance of people in a landscape....We won’t solve
our environmental problems without a movement.” —M. Sanjayan
pearances on the Discovery Channel, Late Night with
David Letterman, and for his esteemed work with
the Clinton Global Initiative and the Aspen Institute.
He is considered one of the leading voices in conservation biology and one of the most engaging speakers of his generation—exactly the sort of speaker we hope to continue to attract
in this exciting series.
The Murie WILD (Wonder. Inspire. Lead. Discover) Series—a
collaborative project of The Murie Center and the Center of Wonder—recognizes the gap between the theoretical and practical
in the application of environmental ethics. By featuring a broad
range of speakers—from world-class scientific and philosophical
pioneers to visionary architects, explorers, artists and storytellers—the series provokes new ways of thinking about and acting
in our world. The series features speakers with proven ability to
awaken and inspire shared imagination and whose life’s work has
far-reaching impact. Watch for
updates regarding Murie WILD
Series events in the upcoming
months.
During the ’11-’12 school year, teachers from across Wyoming will visit the
Murie Ranch to participate in workshops to bring place-based education
into Wyoming classrooms. The Murie Center and Teton Science
Schools continue to partner on this program, sharing
best practices in place-based education
and helping teachers incorporate
this essential teaching
philosophy into
their classrooms. The inspiring Murie Ranch provides an ideal setting to facilitate greater connections between teachers, students and
the landscapes they inhabit. The teachers bring the tools they’ve
learned and developed back to places such as Casper, Cheyenne
and Gillette to connect their students to the land via hands-on outdoor education – building a sense of place among a young generation that will later protect the lands they’ve grown to love.
Bottom photo: Conservation photographer Tom Mangelsen talks about mountain lion protection from Mardy and Olaus Murie’s porch. Photo, top right: Murie
Center staff with Aldo Leopold Foundation Executive Director Buddy Huffaker
(middle with hat).
Translating the Murie Message
The Murie Center Collaborates with
The Aldo Leopold Foundation
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In July, The Murie Center partnered with The Aldo Leopold
Foundation to host a screening of the film Green Fire at the Craig
Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center in Grand Teton National
Park. The auditorium was filled to capacity and a palpable energy
pervaded as the film depicted the life and thinking of conservationist and Murie contemporary, Aldo Leopold. The film brilliantly captures Leopold’s holistic conservation vision which shaped
his “land ethic.” As core members of the early Wilderness Society,
Olaus Murie and Aldo Leopold were among the most vocal advocates for the interconnectedness of all living things. The field
of ecology emerged from the scientific observations made by the
likes of Leopold and the Muries.
The Murie Center will continue to recognize the similarities
between Leopold and the Muries and the organizations which
further their respective legacies. The Murie Center and The Aldo
Leopold Foundation are working together to host a Land Ethic
Leaders program at the historic Murie Ranch in 2012. Reconnecting the legacies of these visionary conservationists is an exciting
opportunity with nearly limitless potential.
“That land is a community is
the basic concept of ecology,
but that land is to be loved and
respected is an extension of
ethics.” —Aldo Leopold
2012 Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge Trip Announced
We’re pleased to offer a trip to the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge in August of 2012 as a way of honoring and continuing
the legacy of Olaus and Mardy Murie. The Muries were leaders of a pioneering scientific research expedition in the Sheenjek River valley in the summer of 1956, and they played a key
role in the foresighted creation
of what became the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The Sheenjek valley remains as beautiful today as it
did when the Muries fell in love
with it. The river meanders gently across the wide valley, surrounded by rolling mountain
slopes covered with an incredible autumn carpet of reds and
golds. On this south slope river,
you will encounter the northernmost edge of the spruce forest, and rich animal and bird life. Because of the great hiking
opportunities and the beauty of the upper valley, the trip is
designed as more of a “floating basecamp,” rafting a relatively
short section of the river, which allows for multiple layover
days.
This relaxed pace also allows participants to connect
with the essence of wilderness which Mardy Murie expressed
so eloquently in the introduction to her book Two in the Far
North, first published in 1962:
“My prayer is that Alaska will not lose the heart-nourishing friendliness of her youth; that her people will always care
for one another, her towns remain friendly and not completely
ruled by the dollar, and that her great wild places will remain
great, and wild and free, where wolf and caribou, wolverine
and grizzly bear, and all the Arctic blossoms may live on in the
delicate balance which supported them long before impetuous
man appeared in the North. This is the great gift Alaska can
give to the harassed world.”
The trip covers a relatively short portion of the river,
spending 2-3 days rafting (3-6 hours a day on the water). There
will be at least four layover days on this trip, where you can go
for long or short day hikes or just relax in camp. There are no
set “daily itineraries” since the trip allows for a true wilderness
expedition, where we build in flexibility to respond to weather
and water conditions, animal sightings, etc.
Each trip leaves Fairbanks in the early morning of the trip
start date, so you need to be in Fairbanks by at least the day
prior. The trip is scheduled to be back in Fairbanks by late afternoon/early evening of the trip end date. We recommend
leaving at least a day’s leeway at the end of the trip in scheduling other travel plans, since there’s always a chance of getting
weathered in at the pickup point. For other trip details, including cost, please contact The Murie Center at 307.739.2246 or
[email protected]
Tentative 2012 dates:
August 14-21, with possible second trip August 21-29
Inset photo: The Sheenjak River. Picture taken by the Muries on their
1956 expedition to the Arctic.
A d v o c a t e
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Preservation Campaign
In
1956, Olaus and Mardy Murie led a small group of committed
citizens into the Sheenjek Valley in northern Alaska to experience one of the wildest places on Earth. Though their principal objective was to gather support to protect officially the vast wilderness which tumbled down from the Brooks Range to the Beaufort Sea,
Olaus Murie was adamant that each participant allow the powerful
spirit of wild Alaska to seize their souls in the pursuit of the higher
goal. It was meant to be a joyous expedition which would inspire their
writings and testimony later.
The Murie Expedition succeeded on both counts, and in 1960
The Arctic National Wildlife Range was created, protecting millions
of acres of unimpaired land. Thanks to Mardy’s ongoing advocacy,
the protected area doubled in size in 1980 and became the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge.
Despite the tireless efforts of the Muries and their friends and
colleagues, the Refuge is still threatened today by development pressures. The Murie Center will continue to support greater protection for
the Refuge, preserving some of the world’s wildest lands, and protecting the ancient migration of Olaus Murie’s beloved Porcupine caribou
herd. The caribou herd calves on the coastal plain of the Refuge before
migrating into Canada, only to return each year in one of nature’s miraculous—and so far undisturbed—natural processes.
The Murie Center will not rest until this landscape, which inspired
the Muries and was the cornerstone of their life work, is forever preserved.
The Muries helped protect
the migration route of the
Porcupine caribou herd.
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Landscape Partnerships, Campaigns Underway
Flathead Conservation Campaign
The Flathead River Valley is a critical link in the larger Yellowstone to Yukon
(Y2Y) conservation corridor. Flathead conservation is consistent with Murie largelandscape conservation philosophy and
actively supports a connection between
Jackson Hole and Alaska. Ecologically and
symbolically, the Y2Y connection highlights
the science and advocacy of the Muries.
In May, The Murie Center hosted the
Flathead Conservation Campaign team
as they continued to discuss how to realize their vision of creating a National Park
in southeastern British Columbia which
would ecologically complete the WatertonGlacier International Peace Park.
Joined by historian Robert Righter for
an afternoon, the campaign
team learned about the
challenges
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and mileposts which comprised the long
battle to create Grand Teton National
Park. Inspired by the story of Horace Albright’s dream, John D. Rockefeller’s foresight and the majestic Teton backdrop, the
campaign team left the Murie Ranch with
a renewed focus on an unquestionably
worthy, and achievable, goal.
Photos Top, left to right: First two pictures are landscapes within the proposed national park in British
Columbia. Far right: Renowned Y2Y conservationist Harvey Locke leads an interested group, including Murray Rankin and Jennifer Cook, into the
proposed park lands. Inset photos, this page, top:
Locke familiarizes Mark (left) and Murray Rankin
with the landscape to be protected. Inset photo,
bottom: Historian Robert Righter (right) joins members of the Flathead campaign team at an interpretive sign celebrating Horace Albright’s vision for
Grand Teton National Park. Bottom: Arctic Refuge
photo provided by Molly Loomis.
P r o v i d e
E c o l o g y
&
S u s t a i n a b i l i t y
E d u c a t i o n
Center Hosts Sustainability, Leadership Programs
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Rocky Mountain Sustainability and
Science Network (RMSSN) Academy
The Rocky Mountain Sustainability and Science Network
(RMSSN) Academy is a National Science Foundation funded
program designed to help train the next generation of diverse
leaders who are prepared to address sustainability and climate
change on a global scale.
In May, the Academy held an intensive training for 30 students from 17 different national and international universities at
The Murie Center. The students, who upon completion of the
requirements of the program will receive a Certificate in Global
Leadership and Sustainability and will be inducted as RMSSN
Fellows, were involved in field lectures, discussions, field applications and social networking. Rich panel discussions centered
on the topic of sustainability and guest speakers included senior
Grand Teton National Park officials and Jackson Mayor and sustainability proponent Mark Barron.
F a c i l i t a t e
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The Jr. Leadership Wyoming program is a 4-day collaborative program between The Murie Center and Teton Science
Schools held at the historic Murie Ranch in October. The program targets Wyoming youth in grades 9-10 who have attended the Wyoming Youth Congress on Children and Nature—a
project of Teton Science Schools. It is modeled after the highly
The Wyoming Conservation Corps (WCC) returned for another
year of service projects. Students from the University of Wyoming
in Laramie spent two weeks living on the Murie Ranch and doing
projects here and at other NPS locations. While at the Ranch the
crew bucked and stacked firewood. They also helped to improve
the Olaus Memorial Rock at the Jackson Hole Visitor Center on the
edge of town. Thanks to Steve Duerr’s vision, the crew did a great
job putting a retaining wall around the rock, leveling the rock, and
planting wildflowers. The group was honored by a visit from Jackson
Mayor Mark Barron.
C o n n e c t i o n s
Connecting Through the Lens
Youth Conservation Leaders Program
with Teton Science Schools
Wyoming Conservation Corp Rocks!
D e e p e r
Photos: Bottom left: Jackson Mayor Mark Barron (back left) joins Murie
Ranch Manager Dirk Kramer (back right) and WCC volunteers at the Olaus
Murie rock near the National Elk Refuge. Above: Students from Brooklyn, NY
learn map-reading skills from a Teton Science Schools instructor.
successful adult Leadership Wyoming program offered by the
University of Wyoming. Since 2001 participants in the Leadership Wyoming program have traveled the state, learning about
unique challenges and opportunities that are distinctive to the
businesses, communities, and geography of Wyoming.
During the program, students explore the need for outdoor programs for young people and consider how Wyoming’s
unique cultural and natural heritage informs their thinking about
the natural world. The program aims to develop future leaders by honing specific skills in judgment and decision-making,
vision and action, and communication. While in the program,
these young leaders will be exposed to future career opportunities which utilize the skills they have cultivated.
Students will also explore the roles of the Muries as leaders in science, conservation, and education. As part of the career
focus, student participants will have the opportunity to work
closely with professionals in business (outfitting and ranching),
land management (National Park Service and US Forest Service),
or education (teachers and school leaders) to explore those career
opportunities. Student participants will also discuss the idea of
“home-grown” community leadership, where young adults return to the communities where they grew up for their careers.
The Muries understood the value of quiet observation in nature in order
to truly comprehend and appreciate it. The same holds true for renowned
local photographer, Henry H. Holdsworth, who connects with nature through
his camera lens.
The Murie Center welcomes back Holdsworth for two more photography workshops in 2012. For three days in June and October, Henry will be
your guide to capturing the natural beauty beneath the Tetons. Participants
will enjoy a long weekend stay at the historic Murie Ranch while learning
how to photograph the wildlife and wildness of the surrounding valley. The
spring workshop will focus on newborn wildlife and blooming wild flowers
while the fall workshop highlights the changing autumn colors and animals
preparing for winter.
Henry H. Holdsworth 2012 Photography Workshops
Dates: June 20-23, 2012, October 3-6, 2012
Price: $1595, includes lodging in a historic Murie Ranch cabin
for 3 nights, all meals and tuition. Non lodging prices also available
Register at www.muriecenter.org or call 307-739-2246
Photos at left by Holdsworth workshop participant Fred Kobrick
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C o n s e r v a t i o n i s t s
Dwayne Harty/Y2Y
A recent poll carried
out by The Nature
Conservancy told us
what we suspected.
Our kids, future
leaders of Spaceship
Earth, are simply not
getting outside. Nine
out of 10 are getting
online every single day;
shockingly, less than
half are getting out
into nature even
once a week.
—M. Sanjayan
Photos: Top: Brooklyn student Dominik Sochon enjoys the view during a Murie Kids
Week hike. Right: Brooklyn students learn the
importance of unobstructed wildlife corridors
while removing fences.
Dwayne Harty’s ground-breaking
work in Yellowstone to Yukon: The Journey
of Wildlife and Art at the National Museum
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to the ecology of the parks, learned about the geology and formation of the Tetons,
and discovered how each individual has an effect on an entire ecosystem.
By exposing these students to a new and completely different lifestyle and environment than they are used to, we hope to help them see the opportunities and
possibilities that accompany an appreciation for wild places. And when a student
approaches us during the program and asks how they can come back next year and
be a part of more programs like this one, we know we have succeeded.
Photos: Top: Painting by Murie Center Artist-in-Residence Dwayne Harty. Middle: Students from Intermediate School 318 in Brooklyn, NY, joined by Murie Ranch
Manager Dirk Kramer and Brooklyn teachers Robert
Tweeddale and Tina Brazil.
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