This collection includes interviews detailing the career of forestry researcher and professor, Arnold Bolle. The interviews were conducted in 1991 by Matt Thomas. Bolle discusses the Wilderness Act and its impact on how the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, and the U.S. National Park Service managed public lands. He also talks about the influence of the public on land management, and his own philosophy on wilderness management, forest economics, and land use. The original interviews are held as Oral History collection 252 at Archives and Special Collections, Mansfield Library, University of Montana-Missoula.
This collection includes 2 interviews.
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Arnold W. Bolle Interview, February 5, 1991
Arnold W. Bolle
Arnold Bolle describes how the public played a pivotal role in the designation and protections of specific wilderness areas in Montana such as the Bob Marshall and Great Bear Wildernesses and other locations around Lincoln and the Blackfoot River. Bolle explains how U.S. representatives from ... Read More
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Arnold W. Bolle Interview, January 7, 1991
Arnold W. Bolle
Arnold Bolle talks about his career as a forestry researcher, and describes the beginning of the movement to legally designate wilderness areas. He explains how the Wilderness Act changed the way the U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Bureau of Land Management [BLM], and U.S. National Park ... Read More