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Arnold William Bolle
BornOctober 5, 1912
Northwestern College (L.A., 1934), University of Montana (B.S., 1937), Harvard University
(M.S., 1955; Ph.D. 1960)

Arnold Bolle (October 5, 1912 – March 18, 1994) was a leading figure in the Montana conservation movement. Although his work primarily focused on local Montana forests and conservation efforts, Bolle's activism was instrumental in bringing

forest conservation into the public view at a national scale with his widely disseminated report, A University View of the Forest Service in 1970, which became known as the "Bolle Report." Bolle's career contributions to the field and study of forestry was so great that Dick Behan, former Dean of the Northern Arizona University School of Forestry, contends: "If we can credit one person with changing what students learn and what foresters do on the ground, then that person has to be Arnold Bolle."[1]

Early life and education

Arnold William Bolle was born on October 5, 1912, in

K.D. Swan. Bolle and Swan married in 1937 and went on to have three children.[2]

Bolle continued his education in 1954, when he accepted a fellowship at Harvard University, where he earned his Master's in forestry in 1955. Bolle returned to Harvard in 1958, where earned his Ph.D. in public administration two years later.[3]

Career

Bolle returned to Montana in 1954 and became a professor in the School of Forestry. Bolle took a brief hiatus from his teaching position in order to continue his studies at Harvard. After graduating with his Ph.D. in 1962, Bolle returned to the University of Montana as a professor, where he was also named Dean of the School of Forestry. He retired as Dean in 1972, but continued teaching as a professor until his retirement in 1978.

Soil Conservation Service in 1938, a job he held for the next eighteen years.[3]

While at the University of Montana, Bolle worked closely with local Montana communities. In 1970, at the behest of Montana Senator

national forest land management controversy and contributed to the passage of the National Forest Management Act of 1976.[3]

Later years

During his retirement years, Bolle remained active in the community, serving on boards and committees of many local and national environmental organizations. He served on the governing council of the

Montana Wilderness Association and the Forever Wild Endowment with the Wilderness Watch. He was honored nationally with the Bolle Center for Ecosystem Management, a segment of The Wilderness Society in Washington, D.C. He also received the Wilderness Society's highest honor—the Robert Marshall Award—in 1993.[5] The University of Montana Bolle Center for People and Forests was named for Bolle that same year. The center is an independent, service-oriented natural resource learning center dedicated to Bolle's philosophy of ecosystem management and sustainable forests.[3]

Bolle died in Missoula, Montana on March 18, 1994.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Arnold Bolle (1912-1994) "Dean of Western Forests"" (PDF). Montana Historical Society. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  2. ^ "Arnold Bolle". Bolle Center for People and Forests. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d "Archives West: Arnold W. Bolle Papers, 1930-1944". Orbis Cascade Alliance. Material was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
  4. ^ "UM Forest Dean, Bolle, To Retire". Great Falls Tribune. No. 187. October 27, 1971. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  5. ^ "Awards". The Wilderness Society. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  6. ^ "Obituaries: Arnold Bolle". Missoulian. March 20, 1994. Retrieved 12 July 2019.

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