Wallace Byron Grange (1905-87) was an influential conservationist who worked alongside Aldo Leopold.
Grange's story vividly describes his mostly idyllic childhood watching bird life in the once grand prairies just west of Chicago.
He documents his family's journey and pioneering struggle to operate a farm on the logged cutover country in northern Wisconsin, a land that provided him with abundant opportunities to study the lives of wild creatures he loved most.
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