Patrick Durkin: Biologist Keith McCaffery left mark in Wisconsin’s deer woods

American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “If a single man plants himself on his convictions and then abides, the huge world will come ’round to him.”
Maybe so, but Keith McCaffery, 86, of Rhinelander, Wis., is still waiting for many hunters to rally around his faith in scientific deer management. McCaffery staked deer biology’s flag into Wisconsin’s forests, woodlots, and farmlands as a young man. And though he defended that banner with keen humor and fierce fairness the past 60-plus years, he’ll never know his won-loss record in the court of public opinion.

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