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 31
... soil erosion , Leopold devoted one inspection trip after another , in national forests across New Mexico and Ari- zona , to understanding the cause and effect that related erosion to overgrazing , flooding , vegetation changes , fire ...
... soil erosion , Leopold devoted one inspection trip after another , in national forests across New Mexico and Ari- zona , to understanding the cause and effect that related erosion to overgrazing , flooding , vegetation changes , fire ...
Page 33
... 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 Leopold's Early Years.
... 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 Leopold's Early Years.
Page 42
... soils preventing any one species from taking over . The result is an intermingling of species from north and south.2 The woodland peoples who inhabited the area from before the time of Christ until the coming of the French explorers ...
... soils preventing any one species from taking over . The result is an intermingling of species from north and south.2 The woodland peoples who inhabited the area from before the time of Christ until the coming of the French explorers ...
Page 43
... soils of the glaciated prairies and oak openings to the east ; later arrivals had to make do with the successively sandier , less fertile lands farther west . Among the earlier arrivals were Daniel Muir and two of his young sons , John ...
... soils of the glaciated prairies and oak openings to the east ; later arrivals had to make do with the successively sandier , less fertile lands farther west . Among the earlier arrivals were Daniel Muir and two of his young sons , John ...
Page 45
... soil was so exhausted that they got only five or six bushels even in the better fields . Yet Daniel Muir doggedly cleared more fields , planted them to wheat and then to corn , built more fences and outbuildings for cattle and pigs and ...
... soil was so exhausted that they got only five or six bushels even in the better fields . Yet Daniel Muir doggedly cleared more fields , planted them to wheat and then to corn , built more fences and outbuildings for cattle and pigs and ...
Contents
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II The Book | 89 |
III The Upshot | 155 |
IV The Impact | 219 |
Appendix | 275 |
Foreword | 281 |
Contributors | 291 |
Index | 295 |
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