Charles Knesal Cooperrider was a US Forest Service research scientist and a pioneer in range, watershed, and revegetation studies.
A native Ohioan and a 1914 B.S. graduate of Ohio University, he contracted tuberculosis as a young man and found the Southwest healthful as well as an arena for his research as a range examiner for the US Forest Service. He did early studies of degradation of range lands in New Mexico and of poor regeneration of Ponderosa pine in logged-over areas of northern Arizona.
In 1932 the Forest Service tapped him to establish the Sierra Ancha Experimental Forest in central Arizona. During the 1930s he divided his time between the research station on Parker Creek in the Sierra Ancha and the Southwestern Forest and Range Experiment Station in Tucson.
His research established the relationship between range conservation and improved conditions for livestock and for human activity dependent on runoff into the Southwest's rivers. His reputation as both a skilled scientist and a patient and compassionate advocate for conservation extended beyond the Forest Service to ranchers and farmers who didn't necessarily agree with him but who respected him.
He was sent to Mexico during World War II to investigate the use of a native plant, guayule, as a substitute source for latex for rubber production, since the forces of the Japanese Empire had overrun the rubber plantations of what is now Indonesia. His health had always been somewhat precarious, and during this work he fell ill and passed away in Baltimore at the young age of 55. His ashes were interred in Tucson, Arizona.
The famous conservationist Aldo Leopold, who was a friend, wrote a moving tribute to him, which appeared in 1948 in the Journal of Wildlife Management.
-- Biographical sketch by Joseph B. Schallan (Find A Grave Contributor #47770375)
Obituaries:
Coconino Sun (Flagstaff, Arizona), July 28, 1944, page 9.
The Arizona Republic (Phoenix, Arizona), July 25, 1944, sec. 1, page 3.
A native Ohioan and a 1914 B.S. graduate of Ohio University, he contracted tuberculosis as a young man and found the Southwest healthful as well as an arena for his research as a range examiner for the US Forest Service. He did early studies of degradation of range lands in New Mexico and of poor regeneration of Ponderosa pine in logged-over areas of northern Arizona.
In 1932 the Forest Service tapped him to establish the Sierra Ancha Experimental Forest in central Arizona. During the 1930s he divided his time between the research station on Parker Creek in the Sierra Ancha and the Southwestern Forest and Range Experiment Station in Tucson.
His research established the relationship between range conservation and improved conditions for livestock and for human activity dependent on runoff into the Southwest's rivers. His reputation as both a skilled scientist and a patient and compassionate advocate for conservation extended beyond the Forest Service to ranchers and farmers who didn't necessarily agree with him but who respected him.
He was sent to Mexico during World War II to investigate the use of a native plant, guayule, as a substitute source for latex for rubber production, since the forces of the Japanese Empire had overrun the rubber plantations of what is now Indonesia. His health had always been somewhat precarious, and during this work he fell ill and passed away in Baltimore at the young age of 55. His ashes were interred in Tucson, Arizona.
The famous conservationist Aldo Leopold, who was a friend, wrote a moving tribute to him, which appeared in 1948 in the Journal of Wildlife Management.
-- Biographical sketch by Joseph B. Schallan (Find A Grave Contributor #47770375)
Obituaries:
Coconino Sun (Flagstaff, Arizona), July 28, 1944, page 9.
The Arizona Republic (Phoenix, Arizona), July 25, 1944, sec. 1, page 3.
Charles Knesal Cooperrider was a US Forest Service research scientist and a pioneer in range, watershed, and revegetation studies.
A native Ohioan and a 1914 B.S. graduate of Ohio University, he contracted tuberculosis as a young man and found the Southwest healthful as well as an arena for his research as a range examiner for the US Forest Service. He did early studies of degradation of range lands in New Mexico and of poor regeneration of Ponderosa pine in logged-over areas of northern Arizona.
In 1932 the Forest Service tapped him to establish the Sierra Ancha Experimental Forest in central Arizona. During the 1930s he divided his time between the research station on Parker Creek in the Sierra Ancha and the Southwestern Forest and Range Experiment Station in Tucson.
His research established the relationship between range conservation and improved conditions for livestock and for human activity dependent on runoff into the Southwest's rivers. His reputation as both a skilled scientist and a patient and compassionate advocate for conservation extended beyond the Forest Service to ranchers and farmers who didn't necessarily agree with him but who respected him.
He was sent to Mexico during World War II to investigate the use of a native plant, guayule, as a substitute source for latex for rubber production, since the forces of the Japanese Empire had overrun the rubber plantations of what is now Indonesia. His health had always been somewhat precarious, and during this work he fell ill and passed away in Baltimore at the young age of 55. His ashes were interred in Tucson, Arizona.
The famous conservationist Aldo Leopold, who was a friend, wrote a moving tribute to him, which appeared in 1948 in the Journal of Wildlife Management.
-- Biographical sketch by Joseph B. Schallan (Find A Grave Contributor #47770375)
Obituaries:
Coconino Sun (Flagstaff, Arizona), July 28, 1944, page 9.
The Arizona Republic (Phoenix, Arizona), July 25, 1944, sec. 1, page 3.
A native Ohioan and a 1914 B.S. graduate of Ohio University, he contracted tuberculosis as a young man and found the Southwest healthful as well as an arena for his research as a range examiner for the US Forest Service. He did early studies of degradation of range lands in New Mexico and of poor regeneration of Ponderosa pine in logged-over areas of northern Arizona.
In 1932 the Forest Service tapped him to establish the Sierra Ancha Experimental Forest in central Arizona. During the 1930s he divided his time between the research station on Parker Creek in the Sierra Ancha and the Southwestern Forest and Range Experiment Station in Tucson.
His research established the relationship between range conservation and improved conditions for livestock and for human activity dependent on runoff into the Southwest's rivers. His reputation as both a skilled scientist and a patient and compassionate advocate for conservation extended beyond the Forest Service to ranchers and farmers who didn't necessarily agree with him but who respected him.
He was sent to Mexico during World War II to investigate the use of a native plant, guayule, as a substitute source for latex for rubber production, since the forces of the Japanese Empire had overrun the rubber plantations of what is now Indonesia. His health had always been somewhat precarious, and during this work he fell ill and passed away in Baltimore at the young age of 55. His ashes were interred in Tucson, Arizona.
The famous conservationist Aldo Leopold, who was a friend, wrote a moving tribute to him, which appeared in 1948 in the Journal of Wildlife Management.
-- Biographical sketch by Joseph B. Schallan (Find A Grave Contributor #47770375)
Obituaries:
Coconino Sun (Flagstaff, Arizona), July 28, 1944, page 9.
The Arizona Republic (Phoenix, Arizona), July 25, 1944, sec. 1, page 3.
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Cremains; date of interment Aug. 12, 1946
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