Estella B. Leopold

Stories from the Leopold Shack (eBook, PDF)

Sand County Revisited

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Produktbeschreibung

In 1934, conservationist Aldo Leopold and his wife Estella bought a barn - the remnant of a farm - and surrounding lands in south-central Wisconsin. The entire Leopold clan - five children in all - worked together to put into practice Aldo's "land ethic," which involved ecological restoration and sustainability. In the process, they built more than a pleasant weekend getaway; they established a new way of relating to nature. In 1948, A Sand County Almanac was published, and it has become a beloved and foundational text of the conservation movement. Decades later, Estella B. Leopold, the youngest of the Leopold children - she was eight when they bought the land - now reflects on the "Shack," as they called the repurposed barn, and its inhabitants, and recalls with clear-eyed fondness the part it played in her and her siblings' burgeoning awareness of nature's miracles, season by season. In Stories from the Leopold Shack: Sand County Revisited, she unforgettably recalls the intensity of those days: the taste of fresh honey on sourdough pancakes; the trumpeting arrival of migrating Canada geese; the awesome power of river ice driven by currents - and each description is accompanied by stunning photographs by her brother, A. Carl Leopold. As the Leopolds worked to restore degraded farmland back to its original prairie and woods, they noted and celebrated all of the flora and fauna that came to share the Shack lands. As first evoked in A Sand County Almanac, and now revisited in Stories from the Leopold Shack, the Leopold family's efforts of ecological restoration were among the earliest in the United States, and their work, collectively and individually, continues to have a profound impact on land management and conservationism. All of Aldo and Estella Leopold's children went on to become distinguished scientists and to devote themselves to a life of conservation; their work continues through the Aldo Leopold Foundation. Estella B. Leopold book offers a voyage back to the place where it all began.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190463236
• Artikelnr.: 48794050

Autorenporträt

Estella Bergere Leopold was born in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1927, and after undergraduate work at the University of Wisconsin and a PhD from Yale University became a paleobotanist and conservationist. From 1955 to 1976 she worked for the United States Geological Survey and subsequently moved to the University of Washington, where, until her retirement, she was a professor of botany and forest sciences and directed the Quaternary Research Center. Elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the recipient of many awards and citations, she lives in Seattle, Washington.

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.