Arthur H. Carhart

A two-fisted fighter for Conservation, ARTHUR H. CARHARTjoined the regular staff of the U.S. Forest Service in 1919, where he rose to the responsibility of planning the human use of wild lands in six states, a total of 23 million acres. On this job he covered most of the Rockies between Montana and New Mexico on foot, on horseback, and by car — a survey which turned him into a vigilante. He has fought the cattlemen and the lumber interests for the preservation of our public lands; now in this article he faces every American — country man and city dweller — with the hard facts of our water famine.

Born and bred in Towa, ARTHUR H. CARHARTgraduated from Iowa State College in 1916. Three years later, as the first landscape architect on the regular stuff of the U.S. Forest Service, he had the responsibility of planning the human use of wild lands in six states, a total of some 23 million acres. Those were the years in which he covered most of the Rockies between Montana and New Mexico on foot, on horseback, and by car. In 1938 the Governor of Colorado asked him to organize the Wildlife Restoration program under the Pittman-Robertson Act.