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

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

Laubach, Stephen A.

Paperback

Series: Wisconsin Land and Life

Business GeneralEnvironmental StudiesRegional: Midwest

ISBN10: 0299298744
ISBN13: 9780299298746
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: Jul 24 2014
Pages: 154
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Awards: Midwest Book Award (MIPA), Midwest Book Award (MIPA)
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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