Wilderness advocate and forester Robert Marshall was born in New York on January 2, 1901. He graduated from the College of Forestry at Syracuse University in 1924, earned a master's degree at Harvard University in 1925, and a PhD. at the Johns Hopkins Laboratory of Plant Physiology in 1930. Marshall began his career with the U.S. Forest Service in 1925 and in 1933 became head forester of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and in 1937, Chief of the Division of Recreation and Lands for the U.S. Forest Service. He is the author of several books, influential articles and government reports on wilderness and forestry. He was a long-distance wilderness hiker and outspoken supporter for the need to preserve wilderness. He was a founding member and major financial contributor of the Wilderness Society. One million acres of wilderness in Montana was named in his honor (the Bob Marshall Wilderness.) He died in his sleep November 11, 1939 at age 38. [From: dust jacket, "Arctic Village," c. 1991, UAF Press]