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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... wildlife management , influential advocate of wil- derness preservation and cofounder of the Wilderness Society , eminent conservationist , professional forester , college professor , homeowner , steward of 120 acres of Wisconsin River ...
... wildlife management , influential advocate of wil- derness preservation and cofounder of the Wilderness Society , eminent conservationist , professional forester , college professor , homeowner , steward of 120 acres of Wisconsin River ...
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... wildlife and its pur- suit , " he wrote , " retain a vivid sharpness of form , color , and at- mosphere that half a century of professional wildlife experience has failed to obliterate or to improve upon " ( 120 ) . He describes the ...
... wildlife and its pur- suit , " he wrote , " retain a vivid sharpness of form , color , and at- mosphere that half a century of professional wildlife experience has failed to obliterate or to improve upon " ( 120 ) . He describes the ...
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... wildlife conservation ( or , more properly , to the anteced- ent campaign for " game protection " ) . Prompted by his enforced period of reflection , his reading , and perhaps by the death of his father in December 1914 , Leopold began ...
... wildlife conservation ( or , more properly , to the anteced- ent campaign for " game protection " ) . Prompted by his enforced period of reflection , his reading , and perhaps by the death of his father in December 1914 , Leopold began ...
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... Wild Life Protection Fund . Aldo and Estella had a family by now . Between 1913 and 1919 , Estella gave birth to four children : Starker , Luna , Adelina , and Carl . Aldo began to write more during these years , publishing the first of ...
... Wild Life Protection Fund . Aldo and Estella had a family by now . Between 1913 and 1919 , Estella gave birth to four children : Starker , Luna , Adelina , and Carl . Aldo began to write more during these years , publishing the first of ...
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... wildlife profession for forty years . In 1931 , Leopold's Report on a Game Survey of the North Central States was published , a landmark study that , for the first time , gave the theory of management a regionwide basis of facts on ...
... wildlife profession for forty years . In 1931 , Leopold's Report on a Game Survey of the North Central States was published , a landmark study that , for the first time , gave the theory of management a regionwide basis of facts on ...
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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