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Page 27
12 But it would be years, and many an antiwolf campaign later, before he would come to regret the incident. Pioneers did not pause to bemoan the loss of a "varmint." Leopold botched that first reconnaissance assignment badly, ...
12 But it would be years, and many an antiwolf campaign later, before he would come to regret the incident. Pioneers did not pause to bemoan the loss of a "varmint." Leopold botched that first reconnaissance assignment badly, ...
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Three years later, he would write the poetic celebration of the crane and its haunts, "Marshland Elegy." By the time Leopold wrote "Marshland Elegy," game management had broadened into wildlife management, and Leopold himself was ...
Three years later, he would write the poetic celebration of the crane and its haunts, "Marshland Elegy." By the time Leopold wrote "Marshland Elegy," game management had broadened into wildlife management, and Leopold himself was ...
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Meltwaters that filled the lake began draining to the northwest and then later moved in the old southerly direction. The new Wisconsin River rapidly cut itself a gorge through the weak Cambrian sandstone at the now-heralded Wisconsin ...
Meltwaters that filled the lake began draining to the northwest and then later moved in the old southerly direction. The new Wisconsin River rapidly cut itself a gorge through the weak Cambrian sandstone at the now-heralded Wisconsin ...
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The first comers claimed the better 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 ...
The first comers claimed the better 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 ...
Page 44
'To this charming hut, in the sunny woods, overlooking a flowery glacier meadow and a lake rimmed with white water- lilies," John Muir reminisced more than half a century later, "we were hauled by an ox-team across trackless carex ...
'To this charming hut, in the sunny woods, overlooking a flowery glacier meadow and a lake rimmed with white water- lilies," John Muir reminisced more than half a century later, "we were hauled by an ox-team across trackless carex ...
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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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| Title | Companion to A Sand County Almanac: Interpretive and Critical Essays |
| Author | J. Baird Callicott |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1987 |
| ISBN | 0299112330, 9780299112332 |
| Length | 320 pages |
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