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Tim Van Deelen

Tim Van Deelen is Professor of Forest and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He grew up in Hudsonville, Michigan, and graduated from Calvin College. From there he went on to the University of Montana and Michigan State University. He now studies large mammal population dynamics, sails on Lake Mendota, enjoys a good plate of whitefish, and gains hope for the future from terrific graduate students. 

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Big Show

This is the big show. The players are arriving, and the curtain is rising. I’m a recent adult-onset birder, but…
Tim Van Deelen
April 28, 2022
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Shut It Down!

Easter is simultaneously the most earthy and transcendent moment of Christianity. What I cannot reconcile is our cavalier attitude toward…
Tim Van Deelen
April 14, 2022
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Bench

We leave our memories in the landscape. Here we step into history and invite it to absorb our grief –…
Tim Van Deelen
March 3, 2022
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Muskrat Love

They’re not rats, despite being burdened with an English name that invites dismissal, even contempt. Muskrats are are ecosystem engineers,…
Tim Van Deelen
February 17, 2022
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Yellow

Amanda Gorman spoke with the gravity of 300 years of dignity that refused to be diminished by pain. She not…
Tim Van Deelen
January 20, 2022
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January 6

To the extent that Reformed Christians share any historical or theological DNA with the wider evangelical moment we need to…
Tim Van Deelen
January 6, 2022