Nolan Kriegel

Forest Hydrologist, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources-Division of Forestry

Nolan grew up in Burnett County, located in rural northern Wisconsin and attended Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. Despite enjoying his time playing college football, taking classes, and his brief city experience, Nolan decided his BA in Biology would best serve him back in northern Wisconsin. He joined the DNR in 2014 as a part-time Forester assisting the Forest Hydrologist. In March 2022, Nolan became a permanent employee of the DNR as the only Forest Hydrologist within the Division of Forestry. He enjoys the statewide responsibility of the position and working in many different landscapes, with a variety of people on the intersection of water and forestry concerns.

He has an array of pastimes, most of them revolve around the outdoors and family. Nolan finds bow hunting and hiking with his wife Sarah particularly enjoyable. Their yellow lab, Lucy, and two children Ayla (2), and Salix (3 months) both like to partake in adventuring outdoors, especially if snacks are included. Their vacations often revolve around planning hiking trips but tend to morph into adventures of mountaineering, rock climbing, and backpacking.

Curt Meine, Ph.d.

Conservation Biologist, Writer, Historian

Curt Meine is a conservation biologist, environmental historian, and writer based in Sauk County, Wisconsin.  He serves as Senior Fellow with the Aldo Leopold Foundation (Baraboo, WI) and the Center for Humans and Nature (Libertyville, IL); as Research Associate with the International Crane Foundation (Baraboo, WI); and as Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  For more than three decades he has worked with a wide array of organizations at the intersection of conservation, agriculture, water, climate change, environmental justice, and community resilience.  Meine has authored and edited several books, including the award-winning biography Aldo Leopold:  His Life and Work (1988/2010).  His most recent book is We Can Do Better:  Collected Writings on Land, Conservation, and Public Policy by Paul W. Johnson (2025).  He served as on-screen guide in the Emmy Award-winning documentary film Green Fire:  Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time (2011).  In his home landscape, he is a founding member of the Sauk Prairie Conservation Alliance.

Eli Anoszko, Ph.D.

Silviculturist, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources-Division of Forestry

Eli Anoszko is a Wisconsin DNR Forest Ecologist/Silviculturist based out of Rhinelander.  Prior to joining the DNR Eli served as Vallier Treehaven Resident Ecologist at UWSP’s Treehaven field station in Tomahawk, WI where he conducted research on prescribed fire,  taught courses in plant identification, forest ecology and fire behavior, and managed the forests and trails on the 1200 acre field station. Eli has a Ph.D. in Natural Resources Science and Management from the University of Minnesota. His dissertation research examined the effects of windstorms and wildfires on the forests of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.  Eli has also worked as a forester for the MN DNR and spent several seasons as a research technician with the USFS in the Sierra Nevada of California working on a variety of fire ecology related research projects. In his spare time Eli enjoys cross country skiing, trail running, cycling and fly fishing.