"LEOPOLD", ANOTHER WINTER READ

A DAWN OF FIRE AND ICE

ALDO LEOPOLD..."FATHER OF SCIENTIFIC GAME MANAGEMENT"...

...WRITER, ADMINISTRATOR, EDUCATOR

Tuesday, 7:45 AM.  -4 degrees F, wind SW, mostly calm but with moderate gusts that create a windchill of -18.  The sky is seems clear.  The humidity is 81% and the barometer is trending down, currently at 30.77".
   "Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Other Writings on Eccology and Conservation," edited by Curt Meine and published by the Gould Family Foundation, was intended by me to be a read last winter, but at 935 pages I snipped at it off and on for many months and did just finish it.
   Most professional and very many lay conservationists and students of ecology have read "A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There," published in 1949 just after Leopoold's untimely death in 1948 at the age of 61.  "Sand County" quickly became a mainstay of not only Wisconsin conservation and ecology, but nationally and worldwide as well.
   A graduate of the Yale School of Forestry at a young age, he immediately went into the field in the American Southwest for the Forest Service.  His professional career was so varied in forestry and wildlife management that it is difficult to detail succinctly, but he also worked for various private conservation and game organizations and eventually became a Professor of Wild Life Management at the University of Wisconsin.
   Today's post is being interrupted by other events and I will continue my notes tomorrow.