Curt Meine, Ph.D., is a conservation biologist, historian, and writer. He currently serves as Senior Fellow with the Aldo Leopold Foundation in Baraboo, Wisconsin, Research Associate with the International Crane Foundation, and a Fellow with the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Art & Letters. He is Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is active locally as a founding member of the Sauk Prairie Conservation Alliance in Sauk County, Wisconsin.