A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There

I found this on the internet.

Aldo Leopold wrote in A Sand County Almanac, bleh, in A Sand County Almanac, "The grouse represents only a millionth of either the mass or the energy of an acre, yet subtract the grouse and the whole thing is dead."

God, that guy was great.

Ooh.

Which was what's your favorite Wisconsin book?

OK, so my favorite Wisconsin book is A Sand County Almanac.

I just shared it as mine a second ago.

Yes.

So.

A- Aldo Leopold back in Sand County Almanac way back when said the same thing, that, that, that, uh, the, the ethical measure is gonna be the man sitting there with the gun by himself when nobody's looking.

That's right.

Right.

Uh, let's see.

Uh, I just, uh, I'm reading Aldo Leopold again on Sand County Almanac 'cause I'm teaching some courses on ecology.

Um, my des-

What was that book?

Aldo Leopold's Sand County Almanac, if you're from-

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He's, uh, one of the lead-

Keeps me doing the same thing.

A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold is one of my favorites, and that one's based where I grew up in Wisconsin.

And so just finding a book by a naturalist in your area to keep inspiring you.

Like, some of the-- Of course, some will come from a biblical worldview, others won't.

An ethic grounded in this truth must be expressed in mutual interest in and concern for one another.

In the summer of 1947, the conservationist Aldo Leopold worked to integrate his thoughts on land use, weaving lands, wildness, and ethics into a single essay, The Land Ethic, which became the capstone to his collection, A Sand County Almanac, 1949.

A land ethic, then, reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and this in turn reflects a conviction of individual responsibility for the health of the land.

Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal.

Yeah, you know, I think we know that animals require large connected habitats to survive, right? All of these creatures, whether we're talking about bears or elk or wolverines or lynx, you know, they have to move across large areas to find food and mates and shelter and, you know, and all the things that every organism needs, right? And roads fragment those habitats and prevent them from safely navigating the landscape.

And, you know, going back to The words of Aldo Leopold, you know, who in Sand County Almanac, and I'm sorry to reference a graduate of the Yale School of Forestry on a Harvard podcast.

You couldn't resist.

I couldn't resist, that's right.

Because I'm a Yale Forestry alumnus myself, so I've got to bring in the Yalies, talking to Harvard people, but...

In Sand County Almanac, Leopold talks about the fact that our national parks are actually too small for a lot of big, wide-ranging creatures who need these connected habitats to wander really long distances.

And that's a lot of what roadless areas provide us.

They're kind of the stepping stone habitats that allow grizzly bears or elk or other animals to move in and out of protected areas or official national parks like Yellowstone or Glacier.