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New Edition of Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work by Curt Meine

Advancing the Land Ethic, Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time

October 4th, 2010

The University of Wisconsin Press has released a 2010 edition of Curt Meine’s biography of Aldo Leopold.  Meine’s book traces Leopold’s life from his Iowa childhood along the Mississippi River to his emergence as an internationally influential scientist, writer, and teacher.  Meine, who is Director for Conservation Biology and History at the Center for Humans and Nature, has contributed a new introduction that reviews Leopold’s expanding legacy in the 21st century.  The book also includes an appreciation by Wendell Berry, especially prepared for this edition.  To learn more and order a copy, visit The University of Wisconsin Press.

The cover of this book features a photo of Aldo Leopold, and mentions the appreciation by Wendell Berry.

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Presentation by Ron Engel to World Soil Forum is Published

July 4th, 2009

CHN Senior Fellow Ron Engel’s keynote presentation at the World Soil Forum 2007 in Iceland has been published. See J. Ronald Engel, “Our Covenant with Earth: The Contribution of Soil Ethics to Our Planetary Future.” In Soils, Society and Global Change: Proceedings of an International Forum, 31 August – 4 September 2007, Selfoss, Iceland Edited by Harriet Bigas, Gudmundur Ingi Gudbrandsson and Andres Arnalds. United Nations University, 2009.

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Curt Meine Publishes Story Honoring Leopold and the Arboretum at the University of Wisconsin

June 10th, 2009

Arboretum burn2Aldo Leopold (second from left) and students conduct early prescribed burns at the UW Arboretum in Madison, WI

This year the University of Wisconsin Arboretum in Madison celebrates its 75th anniversary. Since 1934 the Arboretum has played a central role in developing the science and practice of ecological restoration. In the midst of the Depression and Dust Bowl years, university scientists, students, and Civilian Conservation Corps workers worked to establish at the Arboretum the world’s first restored prairies, setting a precedent for ecosystem restoration efforts around the world. Aldo Leopold, the first research director, noted in his dedication address the goal was to provide “a reconstructed sample of old Wisconsin, to serve as a bench mark, a starting point, in the long and laborious job of building a permanent and mutually beneficial relationship between civilized men and a civilized landscape.”

CHN’s Director for Conservation Biology and History Curt Meine tells the story of the Arboretum in a new article published in the Isthmus, Madison’s widely read alternative weekly. Meine, an alum of the UW-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, was a guest speaker this spring in a special graduate seminar that reviewed the past, present, and future of restoration ecology and the Arboretum. Meaine’s article, “Back to Nature” can be read at www.isthmus.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26006.


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