About
Art Carhart was known as the “Father of the Wilderness Concept.” He was a prolific writer of dozens of books and thousands of articles, as well as a U.S. Forest Service landscape architect and correspondent of Aldo Leopold.
Education
Carhart received a B.S.L.A. from Iowa State College in 1916 and worked briefly for O.C. Simonds before entering the Army in 1917.
Highlights
- Carhart wrote some 4,000 articles and 24 books in his career.
- He maintained a regular correspondence with Aldo Leopold, promoting the emerging idea of wilderness preservation.
