Robert McClure "Bob" Lindholm died Monday. He was 82.
Lindholm served 21 years as an assistant attorney general of Missouri, from July 1, 1972, though July 30, 1993 - serving with attorneys general John Danforth, John Ashcroft, Bill Webster and Jay Nixon.
His work included helping the state transform the abandoned MKT Railroad line into the state's 200-mile Katy Trail State Park.
He was also well-known as a photographer, especially of conservation pictures, and as an outdoor enthusiast.
Nixon, another outdoor and Katy Trail State Park enthusiast, noted the attorney general's office sponsored a bench along the trail, in Lindholm's honor, while Nixon was attorney general.
He said, "Bob Lindholm had a wonderful mind and spectacular camera eye.
"I have a photo of canoeists on the Current River he gave me that captured the rising mist of an Ozark morning.
"The outdoors were always spiritual for him. He will be missed, but left a lasting visual legacy."
His photographs appeared in a number of publications, including the Missouri Conservation Department's "Conservationist" and "Missouri Life."
In 1986, the Sierra Club awarded him its Ansel Adams Award, which "honors superlative photography that has been used to further conservation causes."
In 2007, the Outdoor Writers Association of America awarded Lindholm with its "Jade of Chiefs" Award, its top conservation award.
In April 2014, Lindholm and University of Missouri-Columbia anthropologist W. Ray Wood won the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum's Western Heritage Wrangler Award, for their collaboration on the University of Oklahoma Press' 2013 book, "Karl Bodmer's America Revisited: Landscape Views Across Time."
Bodmer, an artist, created numerous sketches and watercolors of what he saw as he traveled across America, from his arrival in Boston Harbor to western Montana, in the 1830s.
More than 150 years later - in various trips from 1985-2002 - Lindholm and Wood retraced Bodmer's travels, locating and making modern-day records of the same sites.
The book then included side-by-side pictures of Bodmer's art and Lindholm's photographs.
Lindholm was raised in the St. Louis area, earned a degree in radio and television production from the the University of Missouri-Columbia, served in the Marine Corps, and received his law degree from MU in 1964.
After his retirement, he had lived in Lindsborg, Kansas - in the central part of the state, south of Salina - but his obituary listed his most recent home as Overland Park, Kansas.
Lindholm's obituary - posted by the Mt. Moriah, Newcomer and Freeman Funeral Home in Kansas City - requested that donations in Lindholm's memory be made to:
The Katy Trail State Park, 5901 Missouri 163, Columbia, MO, 65203, with checks made payable to the State of Missouri - Department of Natural Resources.
The Nature Conservancy, Attn: Treasury, 4245 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 100, Arlington, VA, 22203.