A Sand County Almanac: With Other Essays on Conservation from Round River

Aldo Leopold

Ballantine Books, 1970 - Nature - 269 pages

"We can place this book on the shelf that holds the writings of Thoreau and John Muir." San Francisco Chronicle

These astonishing portraits of the natural world explore the breathtaking diversity of the unspoiled American landscape -- the mountains and the prairies, the deserts and the coastlines. A stunning tribute to our land and a bold challenge to protect the world we love.

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User Review  - bell7 - LibraryThing

A series of essays in this posthumous collection takes you through a year in the 1940s at Aldo Leopold's farm in Wisconsin, followed by an essay on "The Land Ethic" exploring making conservation part ...

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User Review  - banjo123 - LibraryThing

This is a classic book about environmentalism. It was interesting for me to read at the same time as "Rightful Heritage" by Douglas Brinkley, since Leopold was a character in the FDR administration ...

Contents

• JANUARY: 3
• MARCH: 11
• APRIL: 21
• AUGUST: 38
• JULY: 44
• SEPTEMBER: 56
• NOVEMBER: 70
• DECEMBER: 83
• WISCONSIN: 90
• ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO: 130
• CHIHUAHUA AND SONORA: 146
• OREGON AND UTAH: 164
• COUNTRY: 177
• THE ROUND RIVER: 188
• NATURAL HISTORY: 202
• WILDLIFE IN AMERICAN CULTURE: 211
• THE DEER SWA TH: 223
• THE LAND ETHIC: 237
• WILDERNESS: 264
• CONSER VA TION ES THE TIC: 280

About the author

Aldo Leopold was born in Burlington, Iowa, in 1887. Educated at the Lawrenceville School and Yale University, he joined the United States Forest Service in 1909 as a forest assistant in New Mexico and Arizona. One of the founders of the Wilderness Society, he initiated, in 1924, the first Forest Wilderness Area in the United States (which is now the Gila National Forest). Moving to Madison, Wisconsin, he was Associate Director of the Forest Products Laboratory, as well as consulting forester to several states.

Mr. Leopold founded the profession of game management and wrote the first important book on the subject. In 1933, the University of Wisconsin created a Chair of Game Management for him. He died in 1948, while fighting a brush fire on a neighbor's farm. His death cut short an assignment as an advisor on conservation to the United Nations, and left his book A Sand County Almanac as the last statement of his uncompromising philosophy.

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Sand County Almanac: With Other Essays on Conservation from Round River; A Sierra Club / Ballantine book; A style of life book; Ballantine Books Nature; Ballantine books; Ecological Main Event Series; Outdoor Essays & Reflections
• Author: Aldo Leopold
• Illustrated by: Charles Walsh Schwartz
• Edition: illustrated, reprint, reissue
• Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1970
• ISBN: 0345345053, 9780345345059
• Length: 269 pages
• Subjects: Nature / Ecosystems & Habitats / Mountains; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection; Nature / Essays; Nature / Natural Resources