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Celebrate Four Conservation Champions at 2021 Virtual Ceremonies

WCHF Uncategorized January 20, 2021February 3, 2021Conservation, Conservation Heroes, Event

Our Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame Ceremony will “go virtual” on April 24, 2021, as we honor our newest Inductee, Gary Eldred. In addition, our three 2020 Inductees—Stephen Born, Jens Jensen, and Stanley Temple—will be honored since the 2020 Induction Ceremony was cancelled last April during the pandemic. This year’s ceremony marks the induction of our 100^th conservation hero along with three others. Everyone is invited to participate and help us celebrate this milestone.

From left to right: Gary Eldred, Stephen Born, Jens Jensen and Stanley Temple

How It Will Work

On April 24, the Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame will hold a series of four free Induction Ceremony events held live on a virtual platform throughout the day. Each event will be 45 …

Updated Nomination Process

WCHF Uncategorized January 13, 2021February 3, 2021Conservation Heroes

The WCHF has a new Nomination Application for nominating individuals for induction to the Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame. The new process assists nominators in organizing the needed information for a nomination. It also ensures greater consistency in the nominations received.

Timeline
Nominations are accepted between January 1 – May 31. In June, nominations undergo a technical review. Each August, the five-member Board of Governors (BOG) reviews nominations. The BOG selects five nominations to forward to the Board of Directors (BOD). At the BOD annual meeting in November, the five finalists are discussed and inductees for the next year are selected by representatives from our 30+ Member Organizations.

Standards and Criteria for Nomination
There are Standards and Criteria for Nomination adopted by the WCHF …

WCHF Announces 2021 Inductee – Gary Eldred

WCHF Uncategorized December 23, 2020February 3, 2021Conservation, Conservation Heroes, WCHF Induction Ceremony

It’s official! The Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame Foundation, Inc. (WCHF) has announced the selection of the conservation leader for induction in 2021. The inductee will be Gary Eldred — citizen scientist extraordinaire.

“I had been a hunter, fisherman, and trapper since I was twelve. I deeply enjoyed these outdoor activities and spent as much time as I could pursuing them. In the process, I became a skilled amateur naturalist and developed a strong interest in conservation. While in my mid-twenties, I was fortunate enough to read Aldo Leopold’s Sand County Almanac. That new perspective on nature and conservation, especially the chapters on land ethics, began a subtle transformation of my thinking.” – Gary Eldred

Entirely as a volunteer and teaching himself along …

Former WCHF Governor, Bob Ellingson, Passed Away

WCHF Uncategorized August 11, 2020February 3, 2021Conservation, Conservation Heroes, WCHF Members

Bob Ellingson passed away February 18, 2020. He was a life-long conservationist.

Bob was a graduate of UW-Stevens Point. He taught high school before working for the Wisconsin Conservation Department where he spent 34 years before retiring in 1998. He served as chair of the Conservation Congress for several years. WCHF Executive Committee member, Ed Harvey, noted, “Bob Ellingson was a family man, a gentleman, and a conservationist. I was fortunate to have worked with him for many years on the Conservation Congress when he was the Congress’ Liaison (a DNR employee), later when he became a delegate and eventually when he was the Congress Chairman (1995 – 1998). What people need to understand about Bob is that first, he was a leader. Bob was …

More Details on 2020 Induction Ceremony

WCHF Uncategorized November 20, 2019February 3, 2021Conservation Heroes, Event, WCHF Induction Ceremony

WCHF has announced the selection of three conservation leaders for induction into the Hall of Fame on April 25, 2020 at the SentryWorld (the Atrium) in Stevens Point. The 2020 Induction Ceremony will celebrate our 100th inductee into the Hall of Fame.

The Inductees – Stephen Born, Jens Jensen and Stanley Temple

The inductees this year will be Stephen Born, a well-known UW-Madison professor who specialized in environmental planning and worked on almost every aspect of water management, from the Great Lakes to inland lakes to groundwater and rivers and watersheds, and is an expert fly fisher; Jens Jensen, a landscape architect who developed many of our Midwest parks, focusing on indigenous plants and ecological processes of this region’s prairie landscape, and …