Name: Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work
Author: Berry, Wendell
ISBN: 9780299249045

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Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work

by Curt D. Meine
contributions by Wendell Berry

University of Wisconsin Press, 2010
eISBN: 978-0-299-24903-8 | Paper: 978-0-299-24904-5
Library of Congress Classification QH31.L618M45 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 577.092

ABOUT THIS BOOK

This biography of Aldo Leopold follows him from his childhood as a precocious naturalist to his profoundly influential role in the development of conservation and modern environmentalism in the United States. This edition includes a new preface by author Curt Meine and an appreciation by acclaimed Kentucky writer and farmer Wendell Berry.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Curt D. Meine is director for conservation biology and history with the Center for Humans and Nature; senior fellow with the Aldo Leopold Foundation; research associate with the International Crane Foundation; and associate adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is coeditor of The Essential Aldo Leopold, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press.

REVIEWS

“An excellent, full-length biography of a figure central to the environmental history of the United States.”—Science

“Aldo Leopold is laboriously researched, masterfully synthesized, and felicitously written. . . . Through Meine’s fascinating and lively narrative, we can at last . . . become better acquainted with one of the most important minds in the history of conservation.”—The Bloomsbury Review

“Meine has done a masterful job in presenting to his reader the family man, sportsman, natural resource manager, administrator, professor, philosopher, and poet.”—Western Historical Quarterly

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I. Midwest

1. Sources (1843–1887)

2. Prospect Hill (1887–1904

Part II. East

3. Lawrenceville (1904–1905)

4. New Haven (1905–1906)

5. Forest School (1906–1909)

Part III. Southwest

6. Apache: The Breaks of the Blue (1909–1911)

7. Carson: A Delightful Turmoil (1911–1913)

8. On Top (1913–1915)

9. "To Promote the Protection and Enjoyment of Wild Things . . ." (1915–1919)

10. Chief of Operations (1919–1922)

11. Pioneers and Gullies (1923–1924)

Part IV. Wisconsin

12. A Fish out of Water (1924-1928)

13. "Game Methods: The American Way" (1928–1932)

14. Consulting Forrester (1932–1933)

15. The Professor (1933–1934)

16. The Value of Wilderness (1934–1935)

17. Toward a Biotic View of Land (1936–1939)

18. Digging Deeper (1939–1941)

19. Land Use and Democracy (1942–1945)

20. A Portent of a Different Future (1945–1947)

21. Finale (1947–1948)

Epilogue

Abbreviations Used in Notes and Bibliography

Notes

Bibliography

Index

EXCERPT
“Of all the conservationists who have preceded us, Leopold was the most radical, the most complete, and therefore the most needed. . . . Because his writing has, to such an extent, the quality of his character, and because his character was so much that of a conservationist, it is particularly needful that we should know the story of his life. Curt Meine has supplied this need, and he helps us to see clearly how Leopold’s writing originated in his life. . . . Leopold was indistinguishably a man of words and a man of deeds, and we see this more clearly in Meine’s biography than in Leopold’s writings.”—Wendell Berry, from the appreciation

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