Aldo Leopold not only loved wilderness as a cultural and spiritual necessity for human wholeness, he experienced wilderness in Mexican mountains so devoid of human presence or civilized meddling ...

The legacy of late ecologist, author and professor Aldo Leopold still runs strong at the University of Wisconsin. The campus community honors him with a dorm, scholarship and research award named ...

BARABOO - Aldo Leopold died in 1948, decades before Earth Day was founded. But he had already cast a mold with his life lessons and writings that, arguably, qualify him as the ambassador of the ...

Emblematic of his time and education, Aldo Leopold wrote during 1920 that predators were “the common enemy of both the stockman and the conservationist.” But, in one of Sand County Almanac’s ...

Leopold’s family lived his land ethic too on a parcel along the Wisconsin River outside of Baraboo, Wisconsin. That’s where today, the next generation of conservationists are being nurtured.

The 1,800-acre parcel is owned and managed by the Aldo Leopold Foundation. It includes "The Shack," the chicken coop-turned cabin Leopold cobbled together for his family in the 1930s, and his ...

In 1948, Aldo Leopold suffered a fatal heart attack while helping fight a fire on his neighbor’s farm. The next year, thanks to the determined efforts of family and ...

Aldo Leopold's shack in Sauk County, Wisconsin. Image: Allen C /Flickr Close your eyes, open your ears and hear the sounds that greeted famed naturalist Aldo Leopold on a June morning in 1940.

Aldo Leopold fished Alder Creek, in Iron County. He called the stream, Alder Fork, which is today an inconspicuous brook trout stream compared to others in northern Wisconsin.

The Aldo Leopold Writing Contest invites students in grades six through twelve to read Leopold’s work, especially "A Sand County Almanac," and to write an essay on land ethics.

As we mark the 75th anniversary of Aldo Leopold’s “A Sand County Almanac” and approach the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust, we find ...

In 1948, Aldo Leopold suffered a fatal heart attack while helping fight a fire on his neighbor’s farm. The next year, thanks to the determined efforts of family and friends, Oxford University ...