FranHamerstrom not only was a conservation pioneer; she was a delightful
writer with as colorful a life as you could hope for. A debutante, she
forsook the upper class, east coast social life for a career as a
wildlife biologist in Wisconsin when wildlife management was a new
profession and its professionals learned as they went.
With her husband Frederick she devoted many years to the study of
prairie chickens, an endangered species in much of the Midwest. She and
her husband were students of Aldo Leopold, the Father of Modern
Conservation.
Their experiences through a long marriage and career together are what
makes this book such a delight. Laugh-out-loud funny in many places, it
also is informative and moving. It's as good as memoir writing gets.
