Looking back at the work of Frank Bellrose, a giant of waterfowl conservation

After all these years, the memory is little more than a few images. I was a graduate student.
My new wife, Kathleen, and I were coasting to a stop under the shade of the silver maples a stone’s throw from a backwater of the Illinois River in front of a modest frame building that served as the headquarters of the Illinois Natural History Survey’s world-renowned waterfowl research effort. As we climbed out of our dilapidated Chevy station wagon, I was amazed to see Frank Bellrose, the director of the station and one of the era’s best-known waterfowl specialists, coming out of the front door to greet us.

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