Was C. Hart Merriam, biologist, friend of Teddy Roosevelt & John Muir; and Harry Merriam, Alaska biologist, related? Harry died in February 2005 at age 79 and worked as a NPS ranger with Adolph Murie in 1955 at Mt. McKinley, wrote a classic Coronation Island Wolf Study scientific paper and was born in Nooksack Washington. He also worked for the F&W Service and the US Forest Service.