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Aldo Leopold

Aldo Leopold. Jessica Benson. Who is Aldo Leopold. Aldo Leopold is considered by many to be the father of wildlife management and of the United States’ wildernes s system.

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Aldo Leopold

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  1. Aldo Leopold Jessica Benson

  2. Who is Aldo Leopold • Aldo Leopold is considered by many to be the father of wildlife management and of the United States’ wilderness system. • Born in 1887, Leopold developed an interest in the natural world at an early age. He would spend hours observing, journaling, and sketching his surroundings. • After graduating Yale, Leopold pursued a career with the U.S. Forest Service in Arizona and New Mexico.

  3. Leopold’s Contributions • In 1922, Leopold was instrumental in developing the proposal to manage the Gila National Forest as a wilderness area, which became the first such official designation in 1924. • In 1933 he published his first textbook in the field of wildlife management. • Later that year he accepted a new chair in game management – a first for the University of Wisconsin and the nation.

  4. Leopold’s Legacy • In 1935, Leopold and his family initiated their own ecological restoration experiment on a worn out farm along the Wisconsin River outside of Baraboo, Wisconsin. Planting thousands of pine trees and restoring prairies. • A little more than a year after his death Leopold’s collection of essays A Sand County Almanac was published. With over two million copies sold, it is one of the most respected books about the environment ever published, and Leopold has come to be regarded by many as the most influential conservation thinker of the twentieth century.

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