LETTER: Tucker Prairie should be treasured, not forgotten

Congratulations to Sara Shahriari on her outstanding story about former MU professor Clair Kucera and the Tucker Prairie research center. The article was timely, interesting, and very well-written, with superb photographs and graphics; but it was also very, very melancholy. Looking at the image of the "shuttered shelter" with its broken windows, I couldn't decide if the "forgotten relic" the article refers to was the remnant wilderness, Tucker Prairie research center or Professor Kucera's lifework. Perhaps it was all three.