Conservation

We are delighted to send our thanks out to the WCHF Board Member organization Citizens Natural Resources Association (CNRA) for their gift of an Owen Gromme print entitled “Requiem Horicon Marsh: 1916-1976,” and also to Donna and John VanBuecken for framing the print. Donna is Vice President and currently Acting President of WCHF. The print hangs in the Wisconsin Heroes display in the WCHF Conservation History Museum in the Wisconsin’s Heroes display.

Owen Gromme (1896-1991), a 1994 inductee of the Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame, was a renowned wildlife artist and conservationist. He created this painting for CNRA to protest the damage he believed the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources were causing to Horicon Marsh during the mid-1970s. …

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This past AprilMay, the Our Wisconsin magazine featured an excellent article about the Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame and a number of their inductees. Here is the articleRead more

Bill Berry, State Columnist for The Cap Times, published an article Remembering conservation champion and citizen activist Aroline Schmitt on April 29, 2019. Those of you who attended the 2019 WCHF Induction Ceremony would have heard the stories first hand, but Bill does a great job of encapsulating many of them in this article.Read more

Father of Wildlife Management Aldo Leopold and Father of Wisconsin Plant Ecology John Curtis conceived of, and designed and planted, with the help of others, the first restored prairie in the world -- Curtis Prairie. This planting showed it was possible to restore an ecosystem and to preserve endangered habitats. Because of that determination, the UW Arboretum has recently been listed in the National Register of Historic Places as the birthplace of restoration ecology.Read more