and later by James Allen. Dodd enjoyed wide respect for his support of conservation, and among his honors was Georgia Conservationist of the Year in 1967. On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Mark Trail in 1986, he told a reporter that he had quit Georgia Tech's architecture program because of failing grades in math and chemistry. "In my case, finishing college would have been a mistake," he said. "I'd probably have become a mediocre architect and starved to death." Towards the end of his life, he established the Mark Trail/Ed Dodd Foundation. He died in Gainesville in 1991, survived by his fourth wife, Rosemary, who still resides in Gainesville. That same year, the U.S. Congress honored Dodd's hero with the Mark Trail Wilderness in the Chattahoochee National Forest. Dodd's 130-acre Lost Forest is now residential neighborhoods, one bearing the name "Lost Forest" with a street named "Mark Trail". In 1996, the house formerly occupied by Dodd in Lost Forest burned to the ground (Hill 2003). Works Mark Trail's 2nd book of animals: (North American mammals), by Ed Dodd, 1959 Mark Trail's Book of Animals (North American Mammals), by Ed Dodd, 1965 Flapfoot (Carousel book), by Ed Dodd, 1968 Chipper the Beaver (A See and read beginning to read book), by Ed Dodd, 1968 Mark Trail's Hunting Tips, by Ed Dodd, 1969 Careers for the '70s: conservation (Crowell-Collier careers), by Ed Dodd, 1971 Mark Trail's Cooking Tips, by Ed Dodd, 1971 Mark Trail's Camping Tips, by Ed Dodd, 1971 Mark Trail in the Smokies!: A Naturalist's Look at Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Southern Appalachians, by Ed Dodd, 1989 Sources Georgia Tech Alumni. Deaths: Ed Dodd Gurr, Steve. 2006. New Georgia Encyclopedia: Ed Dodd Hill, Jack. 2003. "Memories of Lost Forest", talk before the Pleasant Oaks Gem and Mineral Society, June 5, 2003 Wilderness.net. Mark Trail Wilderness References External links Marktrail.com 1902 births 1991 deaths American comic strip cartoonists Artists from Georgia (U.S. state) Georgia Tech alumni People from LaFayette, Georgia People from Gainesville, Georgia American male artists 20th-century American artists National Park Service personnel 20th-century American male artists