Wallace B. Grange

Wallace Byron Grange (1905 – 1987) was a conservationist and author in the United States.

He attended Ladysmith High School. He was the first superintendent of game for the Wisconsin Conservation Department and established a game farm in Door County. He then worked for the U.S. Biological Survey, which became the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in Washington D.C.[1]

He married a woman named Hazel, purchased a large property, and restored it. They turned it into a game farm, trapping deer and shipping them to restock areas where they had been depleted.[2] It is now the Sandhill Wildlife Area.[1]

The Wallace Grange Interpretive Trail at the preserve includes signage about his history. He brought bison to the area.[3]

Writings

  • Feed Wildlife in Winter, a 21 page illustrated pamphlet (1937)[4]
  • Wisconsin Grouse Problems (1948)[5]
  • The Way of Game Abundance (1949)
  • Those of the Fores[1][6]
  • As the Twig Is Bent, A Memoir[7][8]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Wallace B. Grange". Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame.
  2. ^ "Sandhill Wildlife Area's Natural history and management | | Wisconsin DNR". dnr.wisconsin.gov.
  3. ^ Taylor, Jennifer (August 28, 2023). "Roaming Around at Sandhill Wildlife Area | Wisconsin Electric Cooperative News".
  4. ^ Grange, Wallace B. (September 26, 1937). Feeding wildlife in winter. Farmers' bulletin / United States Department of Agriculture; no. 1783. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture – via Hathi Trust.
  5. ^ Morris, R. F. (May 26, 1957). "Those of the Forest. By Wallace Byron Grange, 314 pages, illustrated by Olaus J. Murie, 1953. The Flambeau Publishing Company, Babcock, Wisconsin. Price $4.75". The Canadian Entomologist. 89 (5): 239–240. doi:10.4039/Ent89239-5 – via Cambridge University Press.
  6. ^ Grange, Wallace B. (Wallace Byron) (September 26, 1990). "Those of the forest". Minocqua, Wis. : Willow Creek Press – via Internet Archive.
  7. ^ As the Twig Is Bent – via uwpress.wisc.edu.
  8. ^ Staff, W. P. R. (March 14, 2022). "As The Twig Is Bent by Wallace Byron Grange, edited by Joseph L. Breitenstein and Richard P. Thiel".