Habeck, James R. (James Robert), 1932-

James R. Habeck was born June 3, 1932, in Ashland, Wisconsin. He received his elementary through high school education in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, graduating from high school June, 1950.

Habeck started college at University Wisconsin-Milwaukee that fall, majoring in preforestry. He spent summers of 1951, 1952 and 1953 in northern Idaho working as a seasonal employee of U.S. Forest Service, doing white pine blister rust control work plus summer firefighting. He attended the University of Montana in Missoula (then Montana State University) for the academic year 1952-1953 and switched his major to botany that year. In fall 1953, Habeck resumed studies in botany at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, taking a BA degree in botany in August, 1954. He began the graduate program in1954 majoring in plant ecology, minoring in wildlife biology. His dissertation research focused on ecological impacts of whitetail deer on winter range in eastern white cedar swamps in northern Wisconsin. He was awarded a PhD in plant ecology at UW-Madison in August 1959.

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