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Aldo Leopold 1887-1948 "Lucky are those who walked in his shadow." Cyril Kabat |
To those who know Leopold through "The Sand County Almanac" he is considered to be akin to Thoreau. His students knew him as "The Professor", a title given with love. Respected as an internationally famous scientist Leopold's most enduring contribution was his land ethic philosophy. He believed that we could never solve our conservation problems on a large scale until we as a people attain an ecological attitude towards our environment. Leopold's friends and students remember him as a man driven with curiosity, and having acute powers of observation and perception. He was both idealistic and practical. People described Leopold as being courteous, understanding, humorous, humble, and inspirational.
| "As Aldo Leopold was cutting the fallen 'Good Oak' into firewood, he reflected on the life of the tree, concentrating mainly in reading the book of nature, and the history of the land as recorded in the chronicle of the oak tree itself." From "Companion to a Sand County Almanac," edited by J. Baird Callicot. |  Click on photo for larger image. |
Exhibit inventory |
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| Object | Description |
| Official gavel of the Citizens' Natural Resources Assocication of Wisconsin, Inc. donated in 1999. | Made of the "Good Oak" by Phil Sander |
| Base to hold a carved shorebird | Base is a chunk of split wood from the "Good Oak" |
| Shorebird | Carved by Phil Sander |
