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Living a Land Ethic Wisconsin Land and Life Arnold Alanen Series Editor Living a Land Ethic A History of Cooperative Conservation on the Leopold Memorial Reserve Stephen A. Laubach The University of Wisconsin Press is book was made possible, in part, through support from the Lawrenceville School. A portion of the royalties from this book will be donated to the Aldo Leopold and Sand County Foundations. e University of Wisconsin Press 1930 Monroe Street, 3rd Floor Madison, Wisconsin 53711-2059 uwpress.wisc.edu 3 Henrietta Street London WC2E 8LU, England eurospanbookstore.com Copyright © 2014 e Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any format or by any means, digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or conveyed via the Internet or a website without written permission of the University of Wisconsin Press, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles and reviews. Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Laubach, Stephen A., author. Living a land ethic : a history of cooperative conservation on the Leopold Memorial Reserve / Stephen A. Laubach. pages cm — (Wisconsin land and life) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-299-29874-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-299-29873-9 (e-book) 1. Leopold, Aldo, 1886–1948. 2. Aldo Leopold Memorial Reserve (Wis.) 3. Natural resources conservation areas—Wisconsin. 4. Restoration ecology—Wisconsin. 5. Conservation biology— Wisconsin. I. Title. II. Series: Wisconsin land and life. S932.W6L38 2014 333.7209775—dc23 2013037569 To Nina, Noah, and Aurora Ecology is the science of communities, and the ecological conscience is therefore the ethics of community life. —Aldo Leopold, “e Ecological Conscience,” 1947 Contents List of Illustrations ix Foreword by Stanley A. Temple xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction 3 1 Settlement and Changing Land Health in the Central Sands Area 12 2 Sowing the Seeds of the Leopold Memorial Reserve Idea 29 3 Implementing a Management Plan 45 4 Growth in Research and Education Programs 64 5 Conservation’s Next Generation 80 Conclusion: The Legacy of the Leopold Memorial Reserve 95 Afterword 106 Notes 109 Bibliography 127 Index 133 vii Illustrations Sand-point pump with oak-and-brass buckets, 1940s 4 Aerial photo of Leopold Memorial Reserve 5 Banding a prairie chicken at Faville Grove, 1938 7 Surveying the landscape at the Riley Game Cooperative, 1947 8 Natural Bridge State Park 13 Location of Native American effigy mound clusters 15 Effigy mound at Man Mound Park near Baraboo 16 Postcard of Fort Winnebago, 1834 18 Notes by surveyor J. E. Whitcher about the future Leopold Memorial Reserve area 20 Hops yard near Wisconsin Dells, ca. 1880 21 Deed of 17 May 1935 for sale of land from Jacob Alexander to Aldo Leopold 24 Obituary from 10 January 1936 for Jacob Alexander 25 Remains of foundation of the Alexander house 27 Aldo Leopold and omas Coleman cooking over a campfire, 1940s 30 Early experiments in land management 32–33 Shack visits by family and friends during the 1950s and 1960s 38–39 Russell VanHoosen on tractor with daughter Tami, 1959 43 Initial planning meetings 47 Wisconsin State Journalarticle, 11 February 1973 49 ix
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