Those of the Forest by Wallace Grange, chapters 5 and into chapter 6 is the story today. Grange was born in 1906 and died in 1987.
From the Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame, about Grange;
He started young and never let up. That would be one way to describe the conservation career of Wallace Grange. Grange was inspired by his teacher and principle at Ladysmith High School. That man, E. M. Dahlberg, is a fellow Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame inductee.
and from https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/topic/Lands/WildlifeAreas/sandhill/grange
During the peak of the Great Depression in the 1930s, an entrepreneur named Wallace Grange and his wife, Hazel purchased 9,460 acres of abandoned, tax-delinquent “wasteland.” Before purchasing the land that would eventually become Sandhill Wildlife Area, Wallace Grange spent a career working in game management with the former Wisconsin Conservation Department (now the Wisconsin DNR) as the state’s first superintendent of game management and for the U.S. Biological Survey (now the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) as a biologist. Grange became known as a competent biologist and was influential in working to develop wildlife management into a profession alongside Herb Stoddard, Aldo Leopold, Adolf and Olaus Murie, Sigurd Olson and others.
Recent Comments