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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Trout Lake Nursery and Reforestation
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:03:43
	Publish Date:		2021-02-24 10:59:58
	Description:		In the nineteenth century, people believed Wisconsin’s forests to be inexhaustible. Lumber production proceeded at an unsustainable pace, but few cared as it was assumed that farming would naturally follow. Successful farming never came on a large scale, and the damaged land needed repairing. This is where the Trout Lake Nursery comes in. Frederick G. Wilson was born in October 1887 in Red Oak, Iowa. At the age of two, Wilson’s family moved to Milwaukee, and then to Sheboygan. Wilson loved the outdoors and wanted to learn as much as he could about the natural environment. Unfortunately, at the turn of the century the University of Wisconsin had no program in forestry, so Wilson went to Michigan to obtain a forestry degree. He graduated from the Michigan Agricultural College in 1911. In March 1911, Wilson was hired as a Forest Ranger for the State Board of Forestry under Edward Merriam Griffith, Wisconsin’s first State Forester. He was assigned to the new Trout Lake Forestry
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