David M. Vetrano (1950-2024) worked as a fisheries biologist for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources for more than 33 years. Almost all of his time was spent managing the cold-water program in streams of the Driftless area in Southwest Wisconsin. While there, he witnessed the streams change from “put and take”, heavily stocked waters to self–sustaining …

Joanne Kline (1949-2024) was a consulting conservation ecologist focused on restoring and managing natural lands, planning landscape scale conservation, and adapting to climate change. She worked nationwide, mainly in the Western Great Lakes region, after 23 years with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources as a water resources biologist, waterways regulator, environmental analyst, and as …