This moment outdoors is brought to you by L.L. Bean, official partner of the National Parks Foundation for the Find Your Park Movement. C. I'm going to see. In the early days of Denali National Park, which was originally called Mount McKinley.

One park scientist stood out among the rest.

He was known for his tough adventurous spirit, groundbreaking biological research, and inspiring

communication.

His name, Adolf Murri.

Aid, as he was known to his friends,

wasn't the only person in his family to become a famous conservationist.

His half-brother Olas was also a biologist.

The two half-brothers married two half-sisters, Olas to Margaret, and Adolf to Louise.

Margaret became known by some as the grandmother of the conservation movement for fighting to create

the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

She moved to Alaska when she was a small child and in

1924 she was the first female graduate from the Alaska Agricultural College and

School of Mines which is the University of Alaska Fairbanks today.

We could do whole episodes on all the Miris, but it was Adolf who would change the face of

ecology as we know it.

Here's Abigail Treview. So, Adolf and Olaf and Olaf grew up in Moorhead, Minnesota. The town had around 5,000 people at the time with a private university founded in 1891,

Concordia College.

Olas began his studies at Concordia and finished his bachelor's degree at Pacific University

and Forest Grove, Oregon in 1912.

A few years later he was recruited to America's last frontier, Alaska.

The chief of the U.S. biological survey, what we know today as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,

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