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Exploring Nature, History and Writing: A Conversation with Milwaukee Author Martha Bergland

The award-winning author has written both fiction and nonfiction books about people who interact deeply with the natural world. ....

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ONLINE: Martha Bergland

ONLINE: Martha Bergland
January 26, 2021
Educator and author Martha Bergland.
You know all about Aldo Leopold and John Muir, Wisconsin-associated naturalists. You know about John Jay Audubon, the great chronicler of North American birds. But what do you know about the Birdman of Koshkonong? This Swedish settler (aka Thure Kumlien) was an ornithologist, botanist and naturalist who settled near Lake Koshkonong in 1843. He sent bird specimens to all the major museums and was the first curator of the new Milwaukee Public Museum. Kumlien deserves more recognition and Milwaukee writer Martha Bergland s new biography from the Wisconsin Historical Society Press,
The Birdman of Koshkonong: The Life of Naturalist Thure Kumlien, will uncover his contributions to ornithology. Bergland will appear on Book Bites, a series of brief Facebook Live book talks from the Wisconsin Historical Society Press on the WHS Press ....

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