Charles Parker Wilber (1883-1954) received the Pugsley Silver Medal in 1937, "for active and efficient services as director of the New Jersey Department of Conservation and Development in the Improvement of the State Forests and Parks for Forest Management and Public Recreation.' He was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He graduated from Rutgers University with a B.A. in 1905, Yale School of Forestry in 1907 and earned his A.M at Rutgers in 1908. He was employed by the William M. Ritter Lumber Company in Maben, West Virginia, 1907-1908 and worked for the U. S Forest Service in Ogden, Utah as a forest assistant from 1908-1910. He became assistant forester and state fire warden in New Jersey Forest Commission in 1911.
In 1915, he joined the New Jersey Department of Conservation and Development in 1915 as assistant state forester and state fire warden and from 1922 as state forester and chief of the Division of Forests and Parks. When the department director retired in 1937, Wilber succeeded to that position. Wilber was effective in enlarging and improving the system of state forests and parks in New Jersey. He retired as a state forester in December 1953.