The Board of Governors has the responsibility of reviewing nominations for the Hall of Fame. They meet once per year, typically in summer, to go over every completed nomination and to pick the five most outstanding to submit to the WCHF Board of Directors and Voting Member Organization Representatives for selection of the following year’s Inductee(s) into the Hall of Fame.
Curt Meine (2022-2025)
Curt is a conservation biologist, environmental historian, and writer based in Sauk County, Wisconsin. He serves as Senior Fellow with the Aldo Leopold Foundation and Center for Humans and Nature; as Research Associate with the International Crane Foundation; and as Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Meine has authored and edited several books, including the award-winning biography Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work (1988/2010) and The Driftless Reader (2017). He served as on-screen guide in the Emmy Award-winning documentary film Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time (2011). In his home landscape, he is a founding member of the Sauk Prairie Conservation Alliance.
Peter David (2023-2025)
Peter worked 36 years as a wildlife biologist with the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission,
where he assisted GLIFWC’s member tribes in the implementation of their off-reservation, treaty-reserved rights. He received his education (bachelors and master degrees in Wildlife Ecology) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and from the tribal elders and members for whom he worked. At GLIFWC, he worked with a variety of natural resources ranging from wild rice to wolves. He currently serves on the Boards of the International Wolf Center and the Timber Wolf Alliance, and is active in Wisconsin’s Green Fire.
John Bates (2024-2026)
John Bates is the author of ten books and a contributor to eight others, all of which focus on the natural history of the
Northwoods. He’s worked as a naturalist in Wisconsin’s Northwoods for 33 years, leading an array of trips and giving talks all designed to help people further understand the remarkable diversity and beauty of nature, and our place within it. He has served on the Board of Trustees for the Wisconsin Nature Conservancy, River Alliance of Wisconsin, and the Wisconsin Humanities Council, and he currently serves on the Board of the Northwoods Land Trust.
Ken M. Blomberg (2024)
Ken M. Blomberg is a freelance writer and longtime resident of rural Junction City in north central
Wisconsin. Author of four books, Up the Creek, Wisconsin Bird Hunting Tales, Letters from Art and Country Journal and Old Man’s Musings. His freelance articles have been published in Field & Stream, Pointing Dog Journal, Fur, Fish & Game, Wing & Shot and the Ruffed Grouse Society (RGS) magazine – as well as state publications like Wisconsin Sportsman, Badger Sportsman, and Woods and Waters. He is a 1976 graduate of UWSP in Resource Management and served as Executive Director of the Wisconsin Rural Water Association for 25 years. Ken, now retired, continues to write and is currently working on his first novel. He owns a gun dog kennel in the heart of ruffed grouse and woodcock country.