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A Sand County almanac & other writings on ecology and conservation, Aldo Leopold ; Curt Meine, editor

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Summary
A Sand County almanac is often hailed as a foundational work of the modern environmental movement. Here, it is paired with over fifty other pieces by Leopold: uncollected articles, essays, speeches, and other writings that chart the evolution of his ideas over the course of three decades
Language
eng
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Publication
Edition
Special commemorative ed.
Extent
xv, 931 pages
Contents
  • Sand County almanac -- Sketches here and there -- The upshot -- Other writings on ecology and conservation -- Selected journals -- Selected letters
  • [1] A Sand County Almanac, and sketches here and there -- Part I: A Sand County Almanac -- January thaw -- Good oak -- The geese return -- Come high water -- Draba -- Bur oak -- Sky dance -- Back from the Argentine -- The Alder fork--a fishing idyl -- Great possessions -- Prairie birthday -- The green pasture -- The choral copse -- Smoky gold -- Too early -- Red lanterns -- If I were the wind -- Axe-in-hand -- A mighty fortress -- Home range -- Pines above the snow -- 65290 -- Part II: Sketches here and there -- Marshland elegy -- The sand counties -- Odyssey -- On a monument to the pigeon -- Flambeau -- Illinois bus ride -- Red legs kicking -- On top -- Thinking like a mountain -- Escudilla -- Guacamaja -- The green lagoons -- Song of the Gavilan -- Cheat takes over -- Clandeboye -- Part III: The Upshot -- Conservation esthetic -- Wildlife in American culture -- Wilderness -- The land ethic -- [2] Other writings on ecology and conservation -- Address before the Albuquerque Rotary Club -- Boomerangs -- Wild lifers vs. game farmers -- A turkey hunt in the Datil National Forest -- The wilderness and its place in Forest Recreational Policy -- Blue River -- Goose music -- Some fundamentals of conservation in the Southwest -- A criticism of the Booster spirit -- Pioneers and gullies -- Grass, brush, timber, and fire in Southern Arizona -- The river of the mother of God -- Conserving the covered wagon -- The pig in the parlor -- Wilderness as a form of land use -- Mr. Thompson's wilderness -- The American game policy in a nutshell -- Game and wild life conservation -- A history of ideas in game management -- The virgin Southwest -- The conservation ethic -- Conservation economics -- The Arboretum and the university -- Land pathology -- Coon Valley : an adventure in cooperative conservation, why the Wilderness Society? -- Wilderness ("To an American conservationist ... ") -- Wilderness ("The two great cultural advances ... ") -- Threatened species -- Naturschutz in Germany -- Conservationist in Mexico -- Conservation blueprints -- Engineering and conservation -- Natural history, the forgotten science -- A survey of conservation -- The farmer as a conservationist -- A biotic view of land -- Lakes in relation to terrestrial life patterns -- Wilderness as a land laboratory -- Yet come June -- The Round River : a parable of conservation -- The Grizzly : a problem in land planning -- The role of wildlife in a liberal education -- The last stand -- Land-use and democracy -- The prairie : The forgotten flora -- What is a weed? -- Post-war prospects -- Conservation : in whole or in part? -- The outlook for farm wildlife -- The land-health concept and conservation -- Scarcity values in conservation -- Deadening -- Wherefore wildlife ecology? -- The ecological conscience -- The deer swatch -- [3] Selected Journals -- "Gettin' ganders on the Rio" -- The delta Colorado -- Canada, 1924 -- Fish Lake -- Canada, 1925 -- Reunion -- Red Fox Day -- Current river trip -- Gila trip -- Second Gila trip -- 1936 Mexico trip -- from Shack Journals, 1935-1948 -- [4] Selected letters
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9781598532067
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A Sand County almanac & other writings on ecology and conservation
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A Sand County almanac & other writings on ecology and conservation
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Aldo Leopold ; Curt Meine, editor
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Sand County almanac and other writings on ecology and conservation
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Author
Editor
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Genre
Language
eng
Summary
A Sand County almanac is often hailed as a foundational work of the modern environmental movement. Here, it is paired with over fifty other pieces by Leopold: uncollected articles, essays, speeches, and other writings that chart the evolution of his ideas over the course of three decades
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contains biographical information
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Green fire
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1886-1948
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Leopold, Aldo
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  • illustrations
  • maps
Index
index present
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non fiction
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bibliography
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  • 1886-1948
  • 1886-1948
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  • Meine, Curt
  • A. companion to A. Sand County almanac
  • Leopold, Aldo
  • Leopold, Aldo
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The Library of America
Series volume
238
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  • Leopold, Aldo
  • Leopold, Aldo
  • Leopold, Aldo
  • Leopold, Aldo
  • Leopold, Aldo
  • Leopold, Aldo
  • Environmentalists
  • Conservationists
  • Wildlife conservation
  • Nature conservation
  • Natural history
  • Faune
  • Nature
  • Conservationists
  • Environmentalists
  • Natural history
  • Nature conservation
  • Wildlife conservation
  • United States
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A Sand County almanac & other writings on ecology and conservation, Aldo Leopold ; Curt Meine, editor
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Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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volume
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text
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  • txt
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Contents
  • Sand County almanac -- Sketches here and there -- The upshot -- Other writings on ecology and conservation -- Selected journals -- Selected letters
  • [1] A Sand County Almanac, and sketches here and there -- Part I: A Sand County Almanac -- January thaw -- Good oak -- The geese return -- Come high water -- Draba -- Bur oak -- Sky dance -- Back from the Argentine -- The Alder fork--a fishing idyl -- Great possessions -- Prairie birthday -- The green pasture -- The choral copse -- Smoky gold -- Too early -- Red lanterns -- If I were the wind -- Axe-in-hand -- A mighty fortress -- Home range -- Pines above the snow -- 65290 -- Part II: Sketches here and there -- Marshland elegy -- The sand counties -- Odyssey -- On a monument to the pigeon -- Flambeau -- Illinois bus ride -- Red legs kicking -- On top -- Thinking like a mountain -- Escudilla -- Guacamaja -- The green lagoons -- Song of the Gavilan -- Cheat takes over -- Clandeboye -- Part III: The Upshot -- Conservation esthetic -- Wildlife in American culture -- Wilderness -- The land ethic -- [2] Other writings on ecology and conservation -- Address before the Albuquerque Rotary Club -- Boomerangs -- Wild lifers vs. game farmers -- A turkey hunt in the Datil National Forest -- The wilderness and its place in Forest Recreational Policy -- Blue River -- Goose music -- Some fundamentals of conservation in the Southwest -- A criticism of the Booster spirit -- Pioneers and gullies -- Grass, brush, timber, and fire in Southern Arizona -- The river of the mother of God -- Conserving the covered wagon -- The pig in the parlor -- Wilderness as a form of land use -- Mr. Thompson's wilderness -- The American game policy in a nutshell -- Game and wild life conservation -- A history of ideas in game management -- The virgin Southwest -- The conservation ethic -- Conservation economics -- The Arboretum and the university -- Land pathology -- Coon Valley : an adventure in cooperative conservation, why the Wilderness Society? -- Wilderness ("To an American conservationist ... ") -- Wilderness ("The two great cultural advances ... ") -- Threatened species -- Naturschutz in Germany -- Conservationist in Mexico -- Conservation blueprints -- Engineering and conservation -- Natural history, the forgotten science -- A survey of conservation -- The farmer as a conservationist -- A biotic view of land -- Lakes in relation to terrestrial life patterns -- Wilderness as a land laboratory -- Yet come June -- The Round River : a parable of conservation -- The Grizzly : a problem in land planning -- The role of wildlife in a liberal education -- The last stand -- Land-use and democracy -- The prairie : The forgotten flora -- What is a weed? -- Post-war prospects -- Conservation : in whole or in part? -- The outlook for farm wildlife -- The land-health concept and conservation -- Scarcity values in conservation -- Deadening -- Wherefore wildlife ecology? -- The ecological conscience -- The deer swatch -- [3] Selected Journals -- "Gettin' ganders on the Rio" -- The delta Colorado -- Canada, 1924 -- Fish Lake -- Canada, 1925 -- Reunion -- Red Fox Day -- Current river trip -- Gila trip -- Second Gila trip -- 1936 Mexico trip -- from Shack Journals, 1935-1948 -- [4] Selected letters
Control code
796756009
Dimensions
21 cm.
Edition
Special commemorative ed.
Extent
xv, 931 pages
Isbn
9781598532067
Lccn
2012948207
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 655
Other control number
99964425586
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
System control number
(OCoLC)796756009
Label
A Sand County almanac & other writings on ecology and conservation, Aldo Leopold ; Curt Meine, editor
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Sand County almanac -- Sketches here and there -- The upshot -- Other writings on ecology and conservation -- Selected journals -- Selected letters
  • [1] A Sand County Almanac, and sketches here and there -- Part I: A Sand County Almanac -- January thaw -- Good oak -- The geese return -- Come high water -- Draba -- Bur oak -- Sky dance -- Back from the Argentine -- The Alder fork--a fishing idyl -- Great possessions -- Prairie birthday -- The green pasture -- The choral copse -- Smoky gold -- Too early -- Red lanterns -- If I were the wind -- Axe-in-hand -- A mighty fortress -- Home range -- Pines above the snow -- 65290 -- Part II: Sketches here and there -- Marshland elegy -- The sand counties -- Odyssey -- On a monument to the pigeon -- Flambeau -- Illinois bus ride -- Red legs kicking -- On top -- Thinking like a mountain -- Escudilla -- Guacamaja -- The green lagoons -- Song of the Gavilan -- Cheat takes over -- Clandeboye -- Part III: The Upshot -- Conservation esthetic -- Wildlife in American culture -- Wilderness -- The land ethic -- [2] Other writings on ecology and conservation -- Address before the Albuquerque Rotary Club -- Boomerangs -- Wild lifers vs. game farmers -- A turkey hunt in the Datil National Forest -- The wilderness and its place in Forest Recreational Policy -- Blue River -- Goose music -- Some fundamentals of conservation in the Southwest -- A criticism of the Booster spirit -- Pioneers and gullies -- Grass, brush, timber, and fire in Southern Arizona -- The river of the mother of God -- Conserving the covered wagon -- The pig in the parlor -- Wilderness as a form of land use -- Mr. Thompson's wilderness -- The American game policy in a nutshell -- Game and wild life conservation -- A history of ideas in game management -- The virgin Southwest -- The conservation ethic -- Conservation economics -- The Arboretum and the university -- Land pathology -- Coon Valley : an adventure in cooperative conservation, why the Wilderness Society? -- Wilderness ("To an American conservationist ... ") -- Wilderness ("The two great cultural advances ... ") -- Threatened species -- Naturschutz in Germany -- Conservationist in Mexico -- Conservation blueprints -- Engineering and conservation -- Natural history, the forgotten science -- A survey of conservation -- The farmer as a conservationist -- A biotic view of land -- Lakes in relation to terrestrial life patterns -- Wilderness as a land laboratory -- Yet come June -- The Round River : a parable of conservation -- The Grizzly : a problem in land planning -- The role of wildlife in a liberal education -- The last stand -- Land-use and democracy -- The prairie : The forgotten flora -- What is a weed? -- Post-war prospects -- Conservation : in whole or in part? -- The outlook for farm wildlife -- The land-health concept and conservation -- Scarcity values in conservation -- Deadening -- Wherefore wildlife ecology? -- The ecological conscience -- The deer swatch -- [3] Selected Journals -- "Gettin' ganders on the Rio" -- The delta Colorado -- Canada, 1924 -- Fish Lake -- Canada, 1925 -- Reunion -- Red Fox Day -- Current river trip -- Gila trip -- Second Gila trip -- 1936 Mexico trip -- from Shack Journals, 1935-1948 -- [4] Selected letters
Control code
796756009
Dimensions
21 cm.
Edition
Special commemorative ed.
Extent
xv, 931 pages
Isbn
9781598532067
Lccn
2012948207
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 655
Other control number
99964425586
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
System control number
(OCoLC)796756009

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