Oral History Interview, Curt Meine (1047)

Abstract

In his two 2009 interviews with Peter Shrake, Curt Meine discussed his involvement in the reuse process at the Badger Army Ammunition Plant located just north of Prairie du Sac. Meine’s involvement dates back to the late 1980s when he first came to came to the area researching the life of Aldo Leopold. Over the next 20 years Meine was sometimes an observer, and often a participant, of the many stages of the reuse process. The interview covers the earliest years of conservation efforts at the plant in the early 1990s and continues up through the present day with the activities of the Sauk Prairie Conservation Alliance and the Badger Oversight Management Committee. These interviews were conducted for inclusion into the UW-Madison Archives and Records Management oral history collection.