Bolle, Arnold W.

Arnold Bolle was a leading figure in the Montana conservation movement. Arnold William Bolle was born on October 5, 1912, in Watertown, Wisconsin. He graduated from Northwestern College with a liberal arts degree. He received his bachelor’s degree in forestry at The University of Montana in 1937. He served as assistant ranger on the Deerlodge Forest and went to work for the Soil Conservation Service in 1938, a job he held for the next eighteen years. His renowned method of working with farmers and ranchers became a model for the Soil Conservation Service.

In 1954, Bolle took a fellowship at the Public Administration School at Harvard University. He returned to Montana in 1954 and became a professor in the School of Forestry. He returned to Harvard in 1958 and earned his Ph.D. in public administration. He became dean of the School of Forestry at the University of Montana in 1962. He retired as dean in 1964 and continued teaching as a professor until his retirement in 1978.

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