Tom Heberlein News Today

75 years after its publication, Aldo Leopolds "A Sand County Almanac" continues to inspire an appreciation of nature. On March 2, community members will come together to read a selection

"All of us who care about and place value on the hunting legacy, wonder and worry about the future of recreational hunting."

V. Paul Reynolds writes that those who place value on the hunting legacy wonder and worry about the future of recreational hunting.

By V. Paul Reynolds A number of years ago, in the 1990s, a highly regarded rural sociologist from Wisconsin, Professor Emeritus Tom Heberlein, predicted that the American hunter was headed for extinction.

Thanks, Tom Heberlein, for your friendship, and your well-studied insights into hunters, hunting, and human bonds.

I am sure there are others that the formidable Tom Heberlein was proud of. He was a brilliant researcher. He was an outdoorsman. He was a great teacher.

When visiting Heberlein’s “Old Tamarack Lodge” in central Ashland County last week, I smiled to see his Checkpoint Charlie signs still holding firm in long-dead trees.

Tom Heberlein has long trimmed two faint trails through the back end of his Northwoods 40 to ease access to the Chequamegon National Forest’s deer, ruffed grouse, snowshoe hares and