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[[Image:250px-BuckyBadgerGraphic.gif|left|thumb|150px|Bucky Badger, athletic mascot of the University of Wisconsin]]

[[Image:250px-BuckyBadgerGraphic.gif|left|thumb|150px|Bucky Badger, athletic mascot of the University of Wisconsin]]

The University of Wisconsin is a member of the [[Big Ten]] athletic conference, and its teams are named the Badgers (a reference to Wisconsin's nickname, the Badger State, because of the economic importance of lead mining in the early 1800s).

The University of Wisconsin is a member of the [[Big Ten]] athletic conference, and its teams are named the Badgers<ref>A reference to Wisconsin's nickname, the ''Badger State.'' The nickname, in turn, comes from the nickname for Cornish miners who worked Wisconsin's lead mines in the early 1800s.</ref>

[[Aldo Leopold]] wrote his classic 1949 work, ''A Sand County Almanac,'' while a professor of game management at the University of Wisconsin.<ref>[http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/natbltn/700-799/nb701.htm Biography of Aldo Leopold] - He

[[Aldo Leopold]] wrote his classic 1949 work, ''A Sand County Almanac,'' while a professor of game management at the University of Wisconsin.<ref>[http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/natbltn/700-799/nb701.htm Biography of Aldo Leopold] - He