Fran and Frederick Hamerstrom: Wildlife Conservation Pioneers

This biography for young readers features the husband and wife team of Fran and Frederick Hamerstrom, students of Aldo Leopold and pioneers of habitat and wildlife conservation. Fran and Frederick worked together for over thirty years mentoring many future scientists and helping to save the greater prairie chicken from extinction in Wisconsin.

About the author

Susan Tupper lives in Amherst Junction, Wisconsin, where she can be often be found working in her garden. She was a library media specialist for the Rosholt School District for 26 years and also has a degree in Broadfield Social Studies from UW-Stevens Point. She served on the Advisory Board of the UW-Madison Cooperative Children's Book Center for three years and is a former recipient of an "Excellence in Teaching" Fellowship Award from the Herb Kohl Foundation.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Tupper
• Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 8 to 12
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.02.2016
• EAN: 9780870207327
• ISBN: 978-0-87020-732-7
• No. of pages: 136
• Dimensions: 175 mm x 226 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 295 g
• Series: Badger Biographies; Badger Biographies
• Subject: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Natural science, technology