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May 22, 2024 · Courtesy New Mexico Tourism Department, File. One hundred years ago, conservationist Aldo Leopold proposed designating 500,000 acres of land in the Gila National Forest as an area where no roads could be built. This led to the first wilderness area in the United States – 40 years before the passage of the Wilderness Act in 1964.
1 day ago · “Aldo Leopold was a bit of a radical,” said Merrell. “Back in 1924, he was a young forester who had an idea to set aside land specifically to be conserved for recreation in a time period where those sorts of ideas did not exist yet.
6 days ago · o, this week, I’m sharing an excerpt that I find incredibly well-written, taken from an introduction to Aldo Leopold’s classic A Sand County Almanac. The introduction is written by Barbara Kingsolver, a Pulitzer-Prize winning author and New York Times Best-Seller.
May 20, 2024 · The Leopold Institute is the only federal research group in the United States dedicated to development and dissemination of knowledge needed to steward the 110 million-acre U.S. National Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS) and similarly protected wild lands.
2 days ago · The Aldo Leopold Festival includes a variety of group trips throughout the Les Cheneaux Islands area highlighting various aspects of the local environment, like this one on the waterfront in 2022. STAFF PHOTO / THE ST. IGNACE NEWS The ninth annual Aldo Leopold Festival will take place in Hessel Wednesday, May 29, to Sunday, June.
May 9, 2024 · 531 subscribers. Subscribed. 0. 1 view 1 minute ago. To honor the 75th anniversary of the Sand County Almanac, storyteller and science writer Brian "Fox" Ellis leads participants on a journey...
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6 days ago · Today we talk about the 75th anniversary of Sand County Almanac and the 100th Anniversary of the Gila Wilderness along with reflections on what Aldo Leopold’s message means in today’s conservation landscape and the challenges we face.
