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March 23, 2005
Conservationist Carl Glenn Hunter died; he is buried in Little Rock (Pulaski County). Hunter achieved prominence in two branches of Arkansas’s outdoors—its fauna and its flora. Activities with wildflowers made him a household name in Arkansas and beyond after his retirement from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (AGFC) as a wildlife biologist. At the AGFC, he became a key figure in the Arkansas deer restoration program, and he compiled a major wildlife inventory, culminating in the 1951 publication of A Survey of Arkansas Game. 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.