![]() ![]() Clean Water Act, National Environmental Policy Act, EPA had just been put together by President Nixon, and there was a lot of funding that came to the states at that time to implement the Clean Water Act. “That’s when a lot of the federal laws had passed. Upon graduation in 1972, Meyer was hired as one of three DNR attorneys. “Earth Day on the UW campus wasn’t as big a deal because the Vietnam situation was going on and that was a more paramount situation on students,” he adds. That was April 1970, 12 days before Earth Day. “My freshman year I needed money obviously and I had a friend who left the DNR as a law clerk and said, ‘Hey this job is going to be open, why don’t you try it?’ and I got in there,” Meyer says. ![]() Meyer got his foot in the DNR's door thanks to a friend. This was 1969 and I can remember sitting in the classroom, where the air intake was having teargas sucked into the room,” he recalls. I got a really nice scholarship there up in De Pere.”Īfter earning a degree in economics, Meyer moved on to law school at UW-Madison. “Like a lot of young men, I didn’t know,” he notes. ![]() Meyer headed off to college not quite sure about what his career would be. I appreciated the outdoors, watching the birds when I was working,” Meyer says. “What it did engrain in me is a love for the land. That job followed Meyer’s long career with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.īut before all that, Meyer grew up on his family’s small farm in Calumet County. Meyer recently retired as the first executive director of a citizen conservation organization called the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation. George Meyer says his career began at the dawn of the golden era of environmental protection. ![]()
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