Friends of the Arboretum -
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Published on: 4/5/2005
Last Visited: 11/29/2006
Tom Blewett
Tom has been a member of FOA since returning to the Madison area in the mid-90's, and is beginning his second year on the board and his first year as the chair of the Leopold Restoration Awards Judges Team.He currently serves as an associate academic program leader for University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension and is an associate professor in the Department of Community Resource Development.Tom previously worked as a county extension educator and state specialist in Extension.Prior to coming to Extension, he was an environmental specialist and bureau chief with Iowa DNR, an environmental biology professor at Clarke College in Iowa, and an environmental consultant.Tom earned a B.S. degree in botany at Iowa State University, and two master's degrees and a Ph.D. from UW-Madison.The Arboretum prairie restoration experience from the 1930's and 1940's through 1976 served as his Ph.D. research topic.