Book Description: Saving our Sturgeon: Protecting Wisconsin’s Ancient Fish, tells the story of how conservation efforts rescued lake sturgeon from extinction in Wisconsin. With kid-friendly illustrations, photos, and maps, the book explains how factors like overfishing and dam building threatened sturgeon survival and how people banded together to save — and continue to support — the iconic big fish.

This book can be used at various levels, but it is recommended for young readers aged ten and up.

Author: Rebecca Hogue Wojahn

Cover Illustrator: Camille Davis/Cricket Design Works 

Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society

ISBN: 978-1-9766-0051-7