Sounds like you don't know much about Ms. Murie.  Are you aware she was the first female graduate at the University of Alaska and grew up in Fairbanks?  She LOVED Alaska but married a man who was required to travel for his work - all related to research of the outdoors.  She was a fascinating woman who wrote extensively about Alaska.  I doubt that she alone was the reason ANWR exists, I thought Congress had that call.