The Natural Resources Board honored the late Harold “Bud” Jordahl on Wednesday by unanimously approving a proposal to name a section of the Lower Wisconsin Riverway after the long-time conservation leader. Jordahl served on the Natural Resources Board from 1972 to 1976 and was instrumental in numerous landmark conservation efforts, including the creation of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore and the creation of the state?s Outdoor Recreation Act Program in 1962, the forerunner of the popular land-buying Stewardship Program.
(Jordahl, who was a professor of urban and regional planning at UW-Madison, helped create conservation organizations such as the 1,000 Friends of Wisconsin and the Gathering Waters Conservancy.)