Maynard Axel Fosberg was born 7 July 1919 in Turlock, California. In 1940, Fosberg joined the Army Air Corp and was stationed in Lamore Air Force Base and was placed in charge of a photo lab. He was then trained on gun cameras in Denver before being transferred to Lakeland, FL for reconnaissance training, and finally Thomasville, GA to train on P1 fighters as a gun camera specialist. He was discharged in 1945. He married Margaret Williams in 1947. Fosberg attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he earned a degree in Soil Science and his masters in the same subject. He received his Doctorate from Wisconsin in Soil Science in 1963. The Fosberg's moved to Moscow in 1947 where he was employeed as a Soils professor at the University of Idaho. He retired from the University of Idaho in 1989 after 42 years. He developed the largest soils monolith collection in the United States during his career and contributed to the World Soil Monolith collection in Holland. Following his retirement he took over the annual High School FFA Idaho State Land and Soils Evaluation Contest, worked with the Latah Soil and Water Conservations Service and Palouse Land Trust. Maynard Fosberg died 18 September 2020 in MOscow, Idaho.

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