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

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Random House Publishing Group, Dec 12, 1986 - Nature - 320 pages
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The environmental classic that redefined the way we think about the natural world—an urgent call for preservation that’s more timely than ever.
 
“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. Conjuring up one extraordinary vision after another, Aldo Leopold takes readers with him on the road and through the seasons on a fantastic tour of our priceless natural resources, explaining the destructive effects humankind has had on the land and issuing a bold challenge to protect the world we love.
 

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personally, I really enjoyed reading this book it was a great reading experience. I read it every night right before getting my back blown out by my boyfriend jacaviontavis. - Robert

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I am shocked and appalled by the vehemently hateful banter from previous reviewers in the google community. It's both disheartening and impressive at the same time to see how some people can project their own misconceptions into a body of work as benign and unassuming as 'A Sand County Almanac'.
Having come from a Daoist family that escaped communist China, I can assure future readers that there is no hint of Marxism or threat to democracy in this book. Rather, it is simply a reflection of the observations of the famed father of American wilderness conservation whom died honorably as a firefighter.
Mr. Leopold's work is simply as the description describes a nonfiction account of his observations in the balance and harmony of nature over a number of decades. Why haters need to turn it into anything more than that, or even take offense to something this simple, is beyond me.
 

Contents

JANUARY
3
MARCH
11
APRIL
21
AUGUST
38
JULY
44
SEPTEMBER
56
NOVEMBER
70
DECEMBER
83
OREGON AND UTAH
164
COUNTRY
177
THE ROUND RIVER
188
NATURAL HISTORY
202
WILDLIFE IN AMERICAN CULTURE
211
THE DEER SWATH
223
THE LAND ETHIC
237
WILDERNESS
264

WISCONSIN
101
ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO
130
Chihua HUA AND SONORA
146
CONSERVATION ESTHETIC
280
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About the author (1986)

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.

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