August 30, 1923

Conservationist Carl Hunter was born in Little Rock (Pulaski County). Hunter achieved prominence in two branches of the Arkansas outdoors—its fauna and its flora. Activities with wildflowers of the state made him a household name in Arkansas and beyond after his retirement as a wildlife biologist. Bookended by stints with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, Hunter worked in wildlife management for Edgar Monsanto Queeny, a St. Louis industrialist who owned the 11,000-acre Wingmead Farms, an intensely managed wildlife preserve and functioning farm in east-central Arkansas. Hunter also studied and photographed Arkansas wildflowers, and this was the foundation of his acclaimed 1984 book, Wildflowers of Arkansas. He followed it with Trees, Shrubs and Vines of Arkansas in 1989.