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Rabbitat: By A Hare

WXPR | By Jeremy Holtz
Published March 31, 2014 at 9:32 AM CDT
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Karl Friedrich Herhold

Today we have the next installment from Wisconsin DNR wildlife biologist Jeremy Holtz as part of his regular contribution "Wildlife Matters". 

Today he tells us about a key member of the food chain.

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Jeremy Holtz
Jeremy Holtz is a Wisconsin native. After starting college with plans of teaching high school music, he got married and left school to re-evaluate his long-term career goals. It took a couple of years, but he returned to college to study natural resource conservation. He ultimately earned his Bachelor of Science in Wildlife Biology from Colorado State University in 1998. He worked in Colorado, Kansas, Wisconsin, and Minnesota before returning to Wisconsin as a Wildlife Biologist in Florence in 2006. After five years in Florence, he transferred to Rhinelander, where he has lived with his wife Carol, and their three sons Jay, Brett, and Trey since fall 2011.
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