He’s often compared to Thoreau and John Muir. Words describe him: scientist, professor, environmentalist, forester, ecologist. But his writing — and his astonishing ideas — rise above all description. Aldo Leopold was born in Iowa in 1887 and died fighting a grass fire on a neighboring farm, in Wisconsin. 1948. He had just become an […]

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