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 22
... conservation also began to emerge in his early teens . Teddy Roosevelt was in the White House . Carl Leopold had always had the instincts of a conservationist , and in a business so closely associated with wood he was well aware of the ...
... conservation also began to emerge in his early teens . Teddy Roosevelt was in the White House . Carl Leopold had always had the instincts of a conservationist , and in a business so closely associated with wood he was well aware of the ...
Page 25
... conservation concerns began to sur- face . When his father wrote and informed him of the annual spring decimation of waterfowl along the Mississippi , Aldo re- plied , " I am sorry that the ducks are being slaughtered as usual , but of ...
... conservation concerns began to sur- face . When his father wrote and informed him of the annual spring decimation of waterfowl along the Mississippi , Aldo re- plied , " I am sorry that the ducks are being slaughtered as usual , but of ...
Page 29
... 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 to ...
... 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 to ...
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... conservation circles and received in 1917 the Gold Medal Award of Hornaday's Permanent Wild Life Protection Fund . Aldo and Estella had a family by now . Between 1913 and 1919 , Estella gave birth to four children : Starker , Luna ...
... conservation circles and received in 1917 the Gold Medal Award of Hornaday's Permanent Wild Life Protection Fund . Aldo and Estella had a family by now . Between 1913 and 1919 , Estella gave birth to four children : Starker , Luna ...
Page 34
... Conservation Corps on a number of erosion control projects . During this period , in May 1933 , Leopold delivered an address he called " The Conservation Ethic , " an early attempt to define the ideas that ultimately came together in ...
... Conservation Corps on a number of erosion control projects . During this period , in May 1933 , Leopold delivered an address he called " The Conservation Ethic , " an early attempt to define the ideas that ultimately came together in ...
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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