Scottish government officials Donald Henderson, Marjorie Marshall and Edythe Murie will accompany the health secretary.
Olaus Murie died three years later, just before Congress passed the landmark Wilderness Act.
Murie now lives on a ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in the shadow of the Grand Tetons.
Murie's life story is a testament to endurance, passion and a deep love of Alaska's wildest vistas.
Mardy Murie transitioned from supporting other activists to writing, speaking and lobbying on behalf of Alaska's wilderness herself.
Just like Murie, Schaller is a steadfast advocate of preserving the area's wildlife.
Decades of success followed, thanks in part to Murie's passionate, often emotional appeals and her deep knowledge of the territory.
Veteran environmentalist Brock Evans tells Berkes he wishes he could turn to Murie when Congress begins debate on the ANWR next year.
But it was 1-1 when the teams went off for their unscheduled break, because Gordon Murie had equalised 12 minutes into the second half.
"After a century of adventure and activism, Mardy Murie is no longer well enough for interviews, " says NPR's Howard Berkes of the 100-year-old naturalist.
In July of 1956, wilderness activists Olaus and Mardy Murie made an expedition to the upper Sheenjek River of Alaska's Brooks Range to inventory the wonders of an all-but-untouched wilderness.
One of those friends is writer Terry Tempest Williams, who recalls watching Murie testify at a Congressional hearing 25 years ago on the fate of 100 million acres of Alaskan wilderness.
And Simon Murie, founder of niche tour operator Swimtrek, says the Strait of Hormuz (Oman-Iran), Gulf of Aqaba (Egypt-Saudi Arabia) and La Perouse Strait (Hokkaido, Japan - Sakhalin, Russia) are all waiting to be swum.
One of the things Murie said at that hearing will no doubt echo in the coming debate on the future of ANWR: "Beauty is a resource in and of itself, " she told the Congressional committee.
On her honeymoon, she and husband Olaus Murie (a scientist with the U.S. Biological Survey who later helped write and enact the Wilderness Act) traveled by steamship and then by dog sled through the Brooks Range, in winter.
But in the coming debates, they will be missing one of their most compelling and influential advocates: Mardy Murie, the woman whose research helped to create the ANWR, and who has fought for half a century to protect it.
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