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 48
... pine and encouraged the spread of jack pine and scrub oak " barrens . " Out in the marshes , where land could be bought for fifty cents an acre , farmers from the neighboring hills cleared ever more tamarack , or let fire do it , and ...
... pine and encouraged the spread of jack pine and scrub oak " barrens . " Out in the marshes , where land could be bought for fifty cents an acre , farmers from the neighboring hills cleared ever more tamarack , or let fire do it , and ...
Page 49
... pine , scrub oak , and raw peat sprouting dense thickets of seemingly worthless aspen . Much of the land had reverted to the counties for nonpayment of real es- tate and drainage taxes . There it reposed , for few would think of buying ...
... pine , scrub oak , and raw peat sprouting dense thickets of seemingly worthless aspen . Much of the land had reverted to the counties for nonpayment of real es- tate and drainage taxes . There it reposed , for few would think of buying ...
Page 51
... pines in huge monotypic blocks . Integrated conservation had been accepted in theory ever since the days of Gifford Pinchot and Theodore Roosevelt , but it took the open money bags of 1933 , Leopold wryly observed in a talk on ...
... pines in huge monotypic blocks . Integrated conservation had been accepted in theory ever since the days of Gifford Pinchot and Theodore Roosevelt , but it took the open money bags of 1933 , Leopold wryly observed in a talk on ...
Page 55
... pines near grape or poison ivy , " or " You can't put up brush shelters " -- which attract rabbits— " and plant white pine at the same time and place . " In one winter rabbits trimmed three - quarters of the white pines planted in the ...
... pines near grape or poison ivy , " or " You can't put up brush shelters " -- which attract rabbits— " and plant white pine at the same time and place . " In one winter rabbits trimmed three - quarters of the white pines planted in the ...
Page 56
... pine , undoubtedly the legacy of cones opened by fire . So it went , the husbandry of pines — the painstaking care in planting , the anxious days of weeding , watering , watching , the toll of drought , flood , and fire , rabbit and ...
... pine , undoubtedly the legacy of cones opened by fire . So it went , the husbandry of pines — the painstaking care in planting , the anxious days of weeding , watering , watching , the toll of drought , flood , and fire , rabbit 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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