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  1. Sep 1, 1984 · Mel Ellis was a prolific, venerable writer and observer of the Wisconsin landscape. He crafted outdoor columns for The Milwaukee Journal for 15 years, wrote short stories, edited a field column for Field & Streeam for 12 years, penned magazine pieces for national media and three of his 18 books became Disney TV movies.

  2. Sep 2, 1984 · WAUKESHA, Wis. -- Noted Wisconsin outdoor writer Mel Ellis died Saturday at the age of 72. Ellis died at Waukesha Memorial Hospital a day after entering the hospital with a respiratory illness.

  3. Mel Ellis dies WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) - Mel Ellis, a versatile author who gave a new dimension to outdoor writing, died over the weekend of complications of a long illness. He was 72.

  4. Mar 2, 2024 · A popular and prolific writer who penned some 20 books, hundreds of magazine articles, and thousands of newspaper columns, Ellis had legions of fans from coast-to-coast—but in his home state of Wisconsin he was revered.

  5. Jul 1, 1998 · Mel Ellis describes how he and his wife and their five daughters (The Rebels) turned a tract of pastureland into a haven for trees, flowers and wildlife. In the lore of nature and the environment, Little Lakes is as familiar and as important as Aldo Leopold's Sand County.

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  6. Jan 1, 1970 · Mel Ellis was a prolific, venerable writer and observer of the Wisconsin landscape. He crafted outdoor columns for The Milwaukee Journal for 15 years, wrote short stories, edited a field column for Field & Streeam for 12 years, penned magazine pieces for national media and three of his 18 books became Disney TV movies.

  7. For many years, readers of the Milwaukee Journal enjoyed the weekly “Notes from Little Lakes” column by outdoor writer Mel Ellis. The columns described the joys and travails of turning a tract of pastureland into a 15-acre paradise of trees, flowers, birds and wildlife with five spring-fed ponds.