Carlos Avery

[3] After graduation, Avery became the editor of the Hutchinson Leader, a weekly newspaper established in 1881[4] with a pronounced Democratic Party political orientation.

[5] Avery was not squeamish about employment of his paper as a political foil, actively participating in the Third Congressional District Editorial Association with likeminded others as early as 1898.

[6] By 1903 Avery's paper had a circulation of about 2,200 copies, earning honors from the New York City trade publication Printers' Ink as one of the best country newspapers in the United States.

Avery also bolstered his conservationist credentials by actively seeking the construction of fish ladders at Minnesota's dams, in accordance with state law,[15] and was aggressive in the prosecution of illegal fishermen.

[17] Avery returned for a second stint as executive agent of the Minnesota Game and Fish Commission in January 1915, appointed to the position by new Democratic Governor Winfield Scott Hammond.

[21] In 1914, Avery made a bid for election to United States Congress in Minnesota's 3rd Congressional District, challenging incumbent Representative Charles R.

Avery's pioneering efforts in conservation in the Upper Midwest led to President Franklin Roosevelt's designation for the Superior Forest reserve as a national game refuge in the 1930s.