Quiviria Coalition celebrates Aldo Leopold Nov 4, 2009
Quiviria Coalition event celebrates Aldo Leopold - New Mexico Business Weekly ... Quiviria Coalition event celebrates Aldo Leopold ... will celebrate the centennial of conservationist Aldo Leopold at its eighth annual conference this week in Albuquerque. (New Mexico Business Weekly, NM)
Swan: New book on kids and hunting Nov 4, 2009
And, they are being shortchanged of the opportunity to cultivate what Aldo Leopold called "The Ecological Conscience," which is what moves outdoorsmen to become such ardent conservationists ... It should also be read and seriously studied by the environmental movement, for as Eaton points out, the people who founded the conservation movement like Teddy Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot and Aldo Leopold, were all hunters. (ESPN -- Outdoors)
Enke: Odds good for getting Scenic Byways grants Oct 21, 2009
There also have been projects funded in Louisa County, with money going towards an interpretive center for the conservation department there and in Burlington with the Aldo Leopold Center. Enke said the odds are good for getting one of these grants through the National Scenic Byways program. (Fort Madison Daily Democrat, IO)
Friends recall the nature of Barrie Hunt Oct 2, 2009
Barrie got his doctorate at the University of Wisconsin, and his teachers had been the students of Aldo Leopold himself (author of A Sand County Almanac, one of the primers of the land stewardship and environmental movements in the United States in the 20th century), Mott said ... Most of his beliefs about conservation and wildlife management came in a direct line from Aldo Leopold. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Should nature be able to take you to court? Jul 19, 2009
The notion of nature s rights has long been cherished in environmentalist circles; the idea cropped up in the writings of Sierra Club founder John Muir in the late 19th century and the influential ecologist Aldo Leopold in the mid-20th century. But the first sustained legal argument is usually attributed to Christopher Stone, a law professor at the University of Southern California. (Boston Globe)
Gila Trout: More fishing than catching Jun 24, 2009
It is the land of Aldo Leopold, the father of wildlife conservation. But the Gilas have little water. (ESPN -- Outdoors)
California Fishy Tales Apr 28, 2009
Words like "sustainable," "endangered species," and "biodiversity" get used in many different ways to justify things that would make Teddy Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot and Aldo Leopold turn over in their graves. The striped bass population of San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento River has already dropped to a 1/3 of what it was a few years ago, at least in part due to water diversions and habitat destruction. (ESPN -- Outdoors)
A life in full Apr 3, 2009
Before the Stokes family set foot in Logan, Alice went to school and was secretary to the American nature writer Aldo Leopold, commonly called the father of conservation. Allen Jr. said his mother typed Sand County Almanac from yellow legal pads holding Leopold s handwritten essays. (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
Group pushes for more Western wilderness Mar 24, 2009
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- The Gila National Forest in southwestern New Mexico is where famed naturalist Aldo Leopold first hatched the idea of setting aside the nation's untamed lands as wilderness. Nearly 85 years ago, he helped carve the world's first designated wilderness out of the Gila. (FOX 11, AZ)
Wisconsin Woodsmoke: Pines and balsams pouring spring perfume Mar 22, 2009
Although a skein of geese, cleaving the murk of a March thaw is spring, according to writer Aldo Leopold. For local country folk, its the return of the crows that spells spring. (Forest Republican, WI)
