Aldo_Leapold

Aldo Leapold Aldo Leopold Aldo Leopold is considered the father of wildlife ecology and a true Wisconsin hero. He was a famous scientist and scholar, great teacher, philosopher, and gifted writer. It is for his book, A Sand County Almanac, that Leopold is best known by millions of people around the world. #The Almanac is about lifetime love, observation, and thought. It led to a philosophy that has guided many to discovering what it means to live in harmony with the land and with one another. He was born in Burlington, Iowa. As a child, he had and interest in the natural world. He spent many hours on adventures in the woods, prairies, and river backwaters of Iowa. His many wild hikes in the wilderness guided him to go for a degree in forestry at Yale. After Yale, Leopold joined the U.S. Forest Service and was assigned to the Arizona Territories. During his term, he began to see the land as a living organism and develop the concept of community. He became conservation's most important supporter. In 1924, he accepted leopold, wisconsin, wildlife, sand, land, known, ecology, almanac, world, work, university, served, people, new, management, laboratory, iowa, important, guided, game, forestry, forest, father, family, department, created, county, book, began, zoology, yale, writer, worn-out, woods, wilderness, wild, true, transfer, tools, thought, territories, term, techniques, teaching, teacher, supporter, students, spent, skills