"Fran was a very influential biologist in Wisconsin. She worked under and was very instrumental in prairie chicken research and habitat preservation. … she flew and hunted with eagles in the 1960s and 1970s, as a woman. … An Eagle to the Sky .. where she chronicled her adventures with several different eagles, was hugely inspiring to me in pursuing that niche of falconry."
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Frances Hamerstrom
(née Frances Carnes Flint; December 16, 1907 – August 29, 1998) was an American writer, and known for her research and conservationist work dealing with the species in Wisconsin, and for her research on North American birds of prey. She published 12 books and over 150 scientific papers. She and her husband were married for 55 years, worked as a scientific team, and both of them received graduate degrees under .
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