June 5, 2014: Conservation Writer, Bill Berry

This Thursday, June 5th, Wisconsin Public Radio’s Route 51 features central Wisconsin conservation writer, Bill Berry, who will discuss his new book, Banning DDT: How Citizen Activists in Wisconsin Led the Way. Berry’s book examines the role ordinary Wisconsin residents played in getting the pesticide banned in the late ‘60s, and how their activism started the modern environmental movement. Berry will be joined for part of the program by Marge Gibson, executive director of the Raptor Education Group wildlife rehabilitation center in Antigo. Gibson will discuss how DDT decimated Wisconsin’s bald eagle population, and how other environmental dangers still threaten many species of birds. Berry is a former editor of the Stevens Point Journal. Banning DDT has been published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press.