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5 unusual facts about Aldo Leopold


Delta Waterfowl Foundation

In 1938, Bell approached Aldo Leopold, who is considered to be the father of wildlife management in the United States, about establishing a research station dedicated to waterfowl research at the Delta Marsh as very little was known at that time about waterfowl biology.

Ginny Wood

Wood was influenced by the writings of pioneer ecologist Aldo Leopold and his philosophy that the natural world and plants had intrinsic rights.

North American Model of Wildlife Conservation

This tenet draws from the writings of Aldo Leopold, who in the 1930s called for a wildlife conservation movement facilitated by trained wildlife biologists that made decisions based on facts, professional experience, and commitment to shared underlying principles, rather than strictly interests of hunting, stocking, or culling of predators.

Thinking like a mountain

Thinking like a mountain is a term coined by Aldo Leopold in his book A Sand County Almanac.

Wild by Law

The film is about the work of Aldo Leopold, Bob Marshall, founder of The Wilderness Society and Howard Zahniser.


Enviro-Capitalists: Doing Good While Doing Well

Policy Review, published by the Hoover Institution, noted that the book views the growth of enviro-capitalism as a vindication of the views of conservationist Aldo Leopold.


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J. Baird Callicott

For 26 years, Callicott lived and taught in the northern reaches of Wisconsin's sand counties, located on the Wisconsin River, just ninety miles from Aldo Leopold's storied shack and John Muir's first homestead on Fountain Lake, the region that stirred the souls of two very influential environmental thinkers.