No matter where you spend your free time, one book worth owning is “The Vegetation of Wisconsin” by John T. Curtis, a University of Wisconsin botanist who died 46 years ago this weekend â?? July 7, 1961, to be exact.
Curtis compiled incredible amounts of information about our native plants and plant communities in his brief career and relatively short age. Fortunately for us, he understood the value of documenting and cataloging his observations so those who follow might benefit from his labors.