Curt Meine
Adjunct Associate Professor of Forest and Wildlife Ecology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Curt Meine is a conservation biologist, environmental historian and writer based in Sauk County, Wisconsin. He serves as senior fellow with the Aldo Leopold Foundation in Baraboo and the Chicago-based Center for Humans and Nature; as research associate with the International Crane Foundation; and as adjunct associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His work has included conservation projects across North America, Europe and East Asia, with a wide array of organizations, agencies, universities and businesses. In his home landscape he devotes himself to community-based land conservation, ecological restoration and sustainable agriculture projects, and is a founding member of the Sauk Prairie Conservation Alliance. Meine has written and edited a number of books on conservation and environmental history, including "Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work" (reissued in a new edition in 2010); and most recently "The Driftless Reader" (2017). He served as on-screen guide in the Emmy Award-winning documentary film "Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time" (2011), which has aired more than 1,000 times on PBS stations around the country.