“Two generations after Aldo Leopold’s passing, his legacy lives on through his readers, his family, and his students, and through the policies he promoted, the organizations he shaped, and the ideas he fostered. But it lives on most tangibly in the many places he worked to conserve. And of these, no place was so intimately essential to his life and thought as the Leopold Shack and the surrounding Leopold Memorial Reserve. In Living a Land Ethic, Steve Laubach explores the many-layered natural and cultural history of the Leopold Reserve, and recounts the innovative efforts to protect and steward its diverse landscape. He shows us that the land ethic continues to evolve in the very place where Leopold conceived it. The land endures, and the story continues.”
—Curt Meine, author of Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work
“A compelling case study of the challenges and rewards in creating a sustainable landscape. One imagines it is the type of book Aldo Leopold would have written himself had he lived for another decade.”
—Mark Madison, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
“Aldo Leopold’s hallowed haunts along the Wisconsin River have been and continue to be a source of inspiration for generations. Living a Land Ethic is both a history lesson and a charge for all of us to think carefully about how we live upon our precious earth. Laubach’s retelling of this important conservation story illuminates how we can and should act as stewards of our land.”
—Jayni Chase, Friends of the Earth