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Montana's Pioneer Naturalist Morton J. Elrod

Biography / Memoir New
By: George M Dennison(Author)
280 pages, 22 b&w illus.
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A naturalist on Montana's academic frontier, passionate conservationist Morton J. Elrod was instrumental in establishing the Department of Biology at the University of Montana, as well as Glacier National Park and the National Bison Range. In Montana's Pioneer Naturalist, the first in-depth assessment of Elrod's career, George M. Dennison reveals how one man helped to shape the scholarly study of nature and its institutionalization in the West at the turn of the century.

Elrod moved to Missoula in 1897, just four years after the state university's founding, and participated in virtually every aspect of university life for almost forty years. To reveal the depths of this pioneer scientist's influence on the growth of his university, his state, and the academic fields he worked in, author George M. Dennison delves into state and university archives, including Elrod's personal papers. Although Elrod was an active participant in bison conservation and the growth of the National Park Naturalist Service, much of his work focused on Flathead Lake, where he surveyed local life forms and initiated the university's biological station – one of the first of its kind in the United States. Yet at heart Elrod was an educator who desired to foster in his students a "love of nature", which, he said, "should give health to anyone, and supply knowledge of greatest value, either to the individual or to society, or to both".

In this biography of a prominent scientist now almost forgotten, Dennison – longtime president of the University of Montana – demonstrates how Elrod's scholarship and philosophy regarding science and nature made him one of Montana's most distinguished naturalists, conservationists, and educators.

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George M. Dennison served as President of the University of Montana from 1990 to 2010, where, among many other projects, he helped to establish the Davidson Honors College. Before his presidency, he taught history and served in administrative positions at Western Michigan University, Colorado State University, the University of Washington, and the University of Arkansas. He is author of The Dorr War: Republicanism on Trial, 1831-1861. George passed away in March 2017.

Biography / Memoir New
By: George M Dennison(Author)
280 pages, 22 b&w illus.
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"Montana's Pioneer Naturalist will rescue Morton J. Elrod from obscurity and establish him as an important pioneer in his area of expertise. Elrod is fortunate to have found a biographer who appreciates his goals, his scientific approach, and his high standards."
– Harry Fritz, author of Montana: Land of Contrast

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