Book ID: CBB001422346

Living a Land Ethic: A History of Cooperative Conservation on the Leopold Memorial Reserve (2014)

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Laubach, Stephen A. (Author)


University of Wisconsin Press


Publication Date: 2014
Physical Details: 136 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

In 1935, in the midst of relentless drought, Aldo Leopold purchased an abandoned farm along the Wisconsin River near Baraboo, Wisconsin. An old chicken coop, later to become famous as the Leopold “Shack,” was the property's only intact structure. The Leopold family embraced this spent farm as a new kind of laboratory---a place to experiment on restoring health to an ailing piece of land. Here, Leopold found inspiration for writing A Sand County Almanac, his influential book of essays on conservation and ethics. Living a Land Ethic chronicles the formation of the 1,600-acre reserve surrounding the Shack. When the Leopold Memorial Reserve was founded in 1967, five neighboring families signed an innovative agreement to jointly care for their properties in ways that honored Aldo Leopold's legacy. In the ensuing years, the Reserve's Coleman and Leopold families formed the Sand County Foundation and the Aldo Leopold Foundation. These organizations have been the primary stewards of the Reserve, carrying on a tradition of ecological restoration and cooperative conservation. Author Stephen A. Laubach draws from the archives of both foundations, including articles of incorporation, correspondence, photos, managers' notes, and interviews to share with readers the Reserve's untold history and its important place in the American conservation movement.

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Authors & Contributors
Miller, Char
Estella B. Leopold
Jeffrey P. Shepherd
Burke, Edmund, III
Davis, Diana K
Zahniser, Howard
Concepts
Ecology
National parks and reserves
Conservation biology
Environmental history
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
Science and literature
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
18th century
Places
United States
Wisconsin (U.S.)
Africa
Guadalupe Mountains National Park
Middle and Near East
Kenya
Institutions
Wilderness Society
United Nations
Yellowstone National Park
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