MURIE AUDUBON SOCIETY CHAPTER HISTORY
On Saturday, August 28, 2004 Murie’s 50th Anniversary was celebrated at the Isaac Walton Club House in Casper, Wyoming In February, 1954, a group of 29 people with a passion for birds, wildlife, and conservation got together and decided to form a Wyoming chapter of the National Audubon Society. Some of them had already been participating in Christmas Bird Counts for National Audubon.
(The first Casper CBC took place in January, 1949.) Thus, the Wyoming Audubon Society came into being.
Charter Members:
Mary Arnold
Travis Look
Alice Bennett
Mrs. Dean C. Morgan
F. Howard Brady
Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Pummill
L. R. Burkhart
Mrs. Louis C. Rognstad
Mrs. Pearl Burns
Dr. and Mrs. Oliver K. Scott
Mary Dille
Helen Sherard
Mrs. L. R. Earnshaw
Mildred O. Snyder
Mrs. William Earnshaw
Maury M. Travis
E. Sue Gloriod
Mrs. Myra B. Waltman
Mrs. Edith Hegwer
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Warkley
Victor Jacquot
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Yant
Elmer E. Johnson
Howard Yant
R. B. Lange
As time went by, the group began to refer to themselves as the Casper chapter of the Wyoming Audubon Society; and eventually, they officially changed the name to the Murie Audubon Society.