Park administrator and teacher dies.

Arthur Wilcox of Fort Collins, Colo., whose career was dedicated to park administration and teaching, died Nov. 23, 2005.

Wilcox served on many advisory boards and commissions for local, state and national parks, including a yearlong Fulbright Scholarship assignment to New Zealand National Parks and a follow-up assignment 10 years later. He also consulted with national and regional park departments in Brazil and Australia. He was the editor of the Parks Maintenance Publications of the American Institute of Park Executives and an officer in the National Society of Park Resources and the Rocky Mountain Nature Association. Wilcox spent a considerable amount of his career as an administrator with the Akron, Ohio, Metropolitan Park District.

Not only was Wilcox an apt administrator but an active educator. He taught at Michigan State University and Colorado State University, where he helped found the CSU Environmental Learning Center.

Wilcox also was integral in the founding of the Fort Collins Convention and Visitors Bureau, Colorado's State Welcome Center and the Rotary Farm Heritage Museum at Lee Martinez Park in Fort Collins.

During his life, Wilcox received a number of awards, including the Rotary Club Service-Above-Self Award and a lifetime achievement award from CSU's Department of Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism in recognition of his extraordinary academic contribution to Recreation and Natural Resource Management. In 2004, he was named the Governor's Outstanding Tourism Volunteer in Colorado.

Memorial donations can be made to the Lee Martinez Farm Park Heritage Museum and Education Fund in care of Allnutt Funeral Home, 650 W. Drake Road, Fort Collins, Colo. 80526.