Recknagel, A. B. (Arthur Bernhard), b. 1883

Arthur B. Recknagel (1883-1962): forester; U.S. Forest Assistant, 1906-1907; chief of reconnaissance on National Forests of the West, 1907-1908; chief of silviculture, Southwestern district, 1908-1910; assistant district forester, 1910-1913, professor of forestry at Cornell, and also chairman of the department; author of numerous books and articles on forestry.

Arthur Bernhard Recknagel died August 8, 1962. He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., December 15, 1883. He prepared for Yale at Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn. After graduation Arthur went to the Yale Forestry School, making Sigma Xi (the scientific honor society) and graduating magna cum laude in 1906. He went directly into the government forestry service and was successively Forest Assistant (1906-7), Chief of Reconnaissance on National Forests of the West (1907-8), Chief of Silviculture, Southwestern District (1908-10) and Assistant District Forester with headquarters at Albuquerque, N. Mex. (1910-13). During the academic year 1911-12 he travelled abroad, studying the forests of northern Europe. In 1913 he was called to the Professorship of Forest Management and Utilization at Cornell, becoming later Chairman of the Department and retiring in 1943, to become a consulting forester. Meanwhile he had held visiting professorships at California and the University of British Columbia and had published many articles and books of high distinction in the field of Forestry. During the Second World War he was Area Forester at Albany for the War Production Board.

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