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Aldo Leopold
(1887-1948)

American Ecologist, Forester
"Father of Wildlife Management"

birthdate: January 11
birthplace:
Burlington, Iowa

Aldo Leopold is considered to be the 'father of wildlife management' and is largely responsible for the current wilderness system in the United States. He grew up with a deep love and appreciation of the outdoors and this guided the course of his life. After graduating from the Yale Forest School in 1909, Aldo Leopold went to work for the newly created US Forest Service in the Southwest. In 1924, his proposal to manage New Mexico's Gila National Forest as a wilderness area was enacted, creating the nation's first official wilderness area. After transferring to Wisconsin, Leopold wrote the world's first textbook on wildlife management in 1933, and became the Chair of the nation's first Game Management Department at the University of Wisconsin, created because of his work. Always one to walk his ecological talk, Aldo Leopold and his family purchased an old farm outside Baraboo, Wisconsin in 1935 and began experimenting in restoring the land to its orginal state, by restoring grassy plains and planting thousands of pine trees. His documentation of the results revealed groundbreaking insights that would influence countless future restoration programs. Aldo Leopold's greatest work was A Sand County Almanac, a collection of essays written to help the mainstream public understand the delicate balance of humanity's relationship to nature. Unfortunately, a week after his manuscript was accepted for publication, Aldo Leopold died of a heart attack after helping a neighbor put out a brush fire. The book would eventually sell over two million copies and will continue to influence conservationists for generations to come.


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