Engineers Forestry News Today

Magical realism, queer history and wartime ecofiction converge in Dry Land, the debut novel by Wisconsin professor B. Pladek.

3:19 Cornelius Harrington, who was known around the state as Neal, was born in 1891 in the town of Hurley.  He entered college in 1909 and finished in 1913 with a degree in forestry from the University of Michigan.  During summer breaks he could be found working the Trout Lake Pine Nursery.  He went on to have a long and influential career with Wisconsin’s Forest Conservation Service.  But like so many young men of his generation, World War I intervened before he could get started. When t...