Arnold Bolle was a leading figure in the Montana conservation movement. Although his work primarily focused on local Montana forests and conservation efforts, Bolle's activism was instrumental in bringing forest conservation into the public view at a national scale with his widely disseminated report, A University View of the Forest Service in 1970, which became known as the "Bolle Report." Bolle's career contributions to the field and study of forestry was so great that Dick Behan, former Dean of the Northern Arizona University School of Forestry, contends: "If we can credit one person with changing what students learn and what foresters do on the ground, then that person has to be Arnold Bolle."