Aldo Leopold Facts
Aldo Leopold Facts
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| Aldo Leopold was born in Burlington, Iowa, in an area that was rich with the potential for exploring and studying the outdoors. |
| His childhood was spent trekking the outdoors with his father, where he learned woodcraft, hunting, and bird cataloging. |
| Family vacations each year were to the Lake Huron area of Michigan, where Leopold further developed his appreciation for the outdoors and the environment. |
| After finishing primary school at the top of his class and enrolling in the closest but far-overcrowded high school, his parents eventually allowed Leopold to enroll in a New Jersey preparatory school after he learned that Yale University was launching a forestry school. |
| Yale only offered a graduate degree in forestry, so Leopold first earned a bachelor's degree and took preparatory classes in forestry. |
| After graduation, he was appointed as an assistant forester in the Arizona and New Mexico territories in the Apache National Forest. |
| Later, in 1911, he then took a position in New Mexico's Carson National Forest. While in New Mexico, he developed the country's first all-encompassing management plan for the protection of the Grand Canyon. |
| Leopold went on to write the newly formed Forest Service's first game and fish handbook. |
| He also was responsible for the Gila Wilderness Area, which was the first national wilderness area within the Forest Service system. |
| Leopold was responsible for encouraging the mindset that predators are vital to the balance of nature, and therefore for establishing the practice of protecting species in our national parks. |
| He bought eighty acres of land in central Wisconsin that had been destroyed by logging, overgrazing of cattle, and other man-made disasters, and chronicled his attempts to restore that land to a sense of nature in his book, A Sand County Almanac. |
| All of Leopold's children went on to follow in his footsteps in some manner, becoming noted environmentalists, professors, and conservationists. |
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