Estella B Leopold

Stories from the Leopold Shack

Sand County Revisited

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Produktbeschreibung

Estella Leopold, the daughter of revered American ecologist, conservationist and writer Aldo Leopold, whose A Sand County Almanac is an enduring American classic, takes us inside the place where land ethic theory started.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 145mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9780190463229
• ISBN-10: 0190463228
• Artikelnr.: 47865379

Autorenporträt

Estella B. Leopold, the daughter of conservationist and writer Aldo Leopold, is Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Inhaltsangabe

* INTRODUCTION
* Part One
* SAGA OF THE SHACK
* 1. The Beginning
* 2. We learned some history at the "Elums. "
* 3. The reconstruction of the old barn. The Parthenon.
* 4. Our Travel with Music.
* 5. Planting pines.
* 6. Our second fireplace. A shingle roof.
* WINTER
* 7. Cutting wood. The splitting operation. Learning about the axes.
Banding winter
* birds. The Bee Tree. Noon picnics. The chickadees and splitting wood.
* 8. The slough. Skating with the muskrat. Ice on the river.
* 9. Games in winter. Carl skis the River.
* SPRING
* 10. Sky Dance. Census for woodcock.
* 11. Warbler watching.
* 12.[to be written]
* 13.[to be written]
* SUMMER
* 14. Summer: an idyllic time at the shack. Sour dough pancakes in the
front yard.
* Sourdough competition. Morning and evening routines.
* 15. Our Beach. Dad's handstands. Grasses that blow in the wind.
Napoleon, the
* log . Phenology.
* 16. Tree House.
* 17. What we found in the Sand Blow.
* FALL
* 18. Hunting. Gun training. Hand made bows from Dad's carpenter bench.
* 19. Mother and Dad's bow and arrow skills. Practice at Vilas Park.
* 20. Mother teaches archery at University of Wisconsin. Mother, a
State
* Champion.
* 21. Planning a drive for a deer hunt. Bow and Arrow hunting. Roving
* Part Two
* 22. Sammy the crow and Dad. Our first pet bird.
* 23. Carl's hawks and the horned owl. Carl and falconry.
* 24. Romeo the second crow and Poco the squirrel.
* 25. Gus, the pointer.
* 26. Fluminea the Manitoba crow (Delta)
* 27. "Dad, could I please have a dog? " [Dad's letter]
* 28. Road kill for supper.
* 29. When Luna missed his curfew at the shack.
* Part Three
* 30. How the river and glacier built the shack area landscape.
* 31. The old corn field in 1930's.
* 32. Early work. Planting acorns, walnuts, wild flowers from road
cuts.
* 33. Managing pine plantations during spring break. 40,000 pine trees.
* 34. Farmer Baxter mows our prairie.
* 35. Attempts to plant tamaracks in the marshy area west of the
"Elums. "
* 36. Posting signs to protect pines.
* Part Four
* 37. Work with Frank Terbilcox (local farmer) to develop duck ponds,
and mow
* trails.
* 38. Planning the future of the shack.
* 39. Starker's design for an Aldo Leopold Shack Foundation; he becomes
our first
* president. Family gatherings become meetings of the board and
members.
* 40. Bradley Era, 1980's-2000. Nina and Charles Bradley move to the
shack
* area and their future log house site.
* a. Two Bradley stories about a quiet Pearl Harbor Day.
* b. The Bradley Study Center and Flick, the dog.
* c. Prairie restoration. Nina building the EBL prairie. Seed
gathering.
* d. The Leopold Foundation evolving with different programs. Our first
* Directors: Expanding the board.
* e. The Leopold Fellows Program (in cooperation with the Sand County
* Foundation).
* f. Summer seminar programs. The two bears prairie.
* g. Nina working with Sand County Foundation to establish new
prairies. h. Badger Ordinance Plant area. Burning the EBL prairie.
Freemans
* building the Suvanna Prairie.
* i. Summer projects of the Leopold Fellows.
* 41. The Huffaker Era.
* a. Growth of the Leopold Foundation.
* b. Green Fire, building the Leopold Center.
* Appendix
* A. THE LUNAS, OTEROS AND BERGERES
* 1. Chronology. Sheep ranching in the Mogollons. San Augustine Plains.
* 2. Family stories of New Mexico. Photos of Eloisa Luna Otero. Photo
of the big house, 135 Grant St., Santa Fe.
* B. THE STARKERS AND THE LEOPOLDS
* 1. Chronology of the Starkers. Their visits to Germany. Settling in
Iowa.
* 2. The Victorian house on Clay St. built by a lumber baron. Charles
Starker builds a house for Clara and her husband. The Leopolds, Carl
Leopold and Clara Starker, their four children.
* 3. Certain family stories of the early Starkers and Leopolds.