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Remembering Ernie Swift — the other Wisconsin conservationist

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When Gov. Julius P. Heil worked to oust Wisconsin Conservation Department Director Harlan “H. W.” MacKenzie in early 1942, much to the dismay of MacKenzie’s many supporters, he unwittingly set in motion the ascension of Ernest “Ernie” Swift to the top state conservation post.
MacKenzie, an outspoken and at times abrasive proponent of modern natural resources management, had made his share of enemies as director and his removal by a “secret” vote of conservation commissioners was clearly politically motivated.

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A look back at the hunting governors of Wisconsin

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Wealthy Milwaukee industrialist and former two-time Wisconsin Governor Julius P. Heil was beaming as he slid into the passenger side of Henry Kuehn’s automobile on a November afternoon in 1949. “This is one of the best days I ever spent,” he said to Kuehn, his friend and president of the Milwaukee Cold Storage Company.
The two men had just enjoyed an afternoon pheasant hunt at the Bark River Game Preserve near Sullivan, Jefferson County, a 2,200 acre refuge maintained by a group of 15 Milwaukee businessmen.

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Wisconsin archery hunting legend Art LaHa reshaped the image of bowhunters

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I first became aware of LaHa’s booklet when I interviewed his daughter, Connie Ghiloni, and LaHa’s friend and hunting companion, Marge Engel, in 2008 in the Vilas County town of Winchester while writing my book On the Hunt: The History of Deer Hunting in Wisconsin.

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Examining Wisconsin’s fish trains and the era of ‘badger’ cars

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In the second half of the 19th century, market hunting was decimating the nation’s wildlife resources. In Wisconsin, deer, bear, ducks, geese, quail, prairie chickens, passenger pigeons and other animals that could be sold for meat, feathers or hides were pursued relentlessly using methods developed to kill high numbers at the lowest possible cost.

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Old time fish trains brought businessmen eager to fish northern Wisconsin waters

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In the predawn of Saturday June 25, 1927, the distant sound of a steam whistle announced the approach of a locomotive closing in on Wausau’s Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad (the Milwaukee Road) depot on Grant Street.
The arrival of a train at the busy station was not uncommon, but this one was coming through at an early hour and was not on the regular schedule. It had left Chicago the previous evening, “six coaches, all but one being sleepers,” bound for Star Lake in Vilas County, Wis.

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Jimmy Carter remembered as many things, including a sportsman

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Inaugurated in 1977, Carter only spent four years of his lifetime as president and is remembered positively and negatively for a wide range of events that occurred on his watch, including the Camp David Peace Accords, a nuclear arms treaty between the U.

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