Companion to A Sand County Almanac: Interpretive and Critical EssaysUniv of Wisconsin Press, 1987 M09 1 - 320 pages The first sustained study of Leopold's seminal book as well as a work of art, philosophy, and social commentary. |
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Page 10
... economics ) which prevails in his profession . One of Pister's mentors was A. Starker Leopold , whose teachings and whose father's A Sand County Almanac gradually converted him to a wider outlook on his professional mandate . His ...
... economics ) which prevails in his profession . One of Pister's mentors was A. Starker Leopold , whose teachings and whose father's A Sand County Almanac gradually converted him to a wider outlook on his professional mandate . His ...
Page 11
... economic , to continuation . Wallace Stegner's " The Legacy of Aldo Leopold " provides a panoramic perspective on the state of the American environment and the American environmental state of mind nearly four de- cades after A Sand ...
... economic , to continuation . Wallace Stegner's " The Legacy of Aldo Leopold " provides a panoramic perspective on the state of the American environment and the American environmental state of mind nearly four de- cades after A Sand ...
Page 32
... economic determinism " he called it — were coming to dominate development in an en- vironment that was intrinsically sensitive to exploitation and sus- ceptible to damage . In June 1924 , a transfer brought Leopold to the U.S. Forest ...
... economic determinism " he called it — were coming to dominate development in an en- vironment that was intrinsically sensitive to exploitation and sus- ceptible to damage . In June 1924 , a transfer brought Leopold to the U.S. Forest ...
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... economy ( and , as would soon become clear , with the soil itself ) , but destroyed the coverts that small and up- land game needed . Second , Leopold was now convinced that predators played only a minor role in game depletion . 33 Aldo ...
... economy ( and , as would soon become clear , with the soil itself ) , but destroyed the coverts that small and up- land game needed . Second , Leopold was now convinced that predators played only a minor role in game depletion . 33 Aldo ...
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... Economics . Leopold was close to many of the university's officials and faculty , and such a plan had been discussed for a number of years . Still , game management was hardly a respectable science at the time . The antipathy came from ...
... Economics . Leopold was close to many of the university's officials and faculty , and such a plan had been discussed for a number of years . Still , game management was hardly a respectable science at the time . The antipathy came from ...
Contents
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| 15 | |
II The Book | 89 |
III The Upshot | 155 |
IV The Impact | 219 |
Appendix | 275 |
Foreword | 281 |
Contributors | 291 |
Index | 295 |
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