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The River of the Mother of God Aldo Leopold, 1928. (Leopold Collection, UW Archives) The River 0/ the Mother a/God AND OTHER ESSAYS BY ALDO LEOPOLD Edited by Susan L. Flader J. and Baird Callicott THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS The 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 © 1991 The 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 Web site 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 Leopold, AIdo, 1887-1948 The river of the mother of God and other essays / by Aldo Leopold edited by Susan L. Flader and J. Baird Callicott. 400 pp. cm. Includes index. 1. Nature conservation. 2. Natural history-Outdoor books. I. Flader, Susan. II. Callicott, J. Baird. ill. Title. QH81.L557 1991 333.9516-dc20 90-45491 ISBN 0-299-12760-5 ISBN 0-299-12764-8 (pbk.) ISBN-13: 978-0-299-12764-0 (pbk: alk. paper) Contents PREFACE / IX ALDO LEOPOLD: A BRIEF CHRONOLOGY / X111 INTRODUCTION / 3 A Tramp in November (1904) / 33 The Maintenance of Forests (1904) / 37 The Busy Season (1911) / 40 To the Forest Officers of the Carson (1913) / 41 The Varmint Question (1915) / 47 The Popular Wilderness Fallacy: An Idea That Is Fast Exploding (1918) / 49 Forestry and Game Conservation (1918) / 53 Notes on the Behavior of Pintail Ducks in a Hailstorm (1919) / 60 Wild Lifers vs. Game Farmers: A Plea for Democracy in Sport (1919) / 62 "Piute Forestry" vs. Forest Fire Prevention (1920) / 68 The Forestry ofthe Prophets (1920) / 71 The Wilderness and Its Place in Forest Recreational Policy (1921) / 78 Standards of Conservation (1922) / 82 v vi Contents Some Fundamentals of ConServation in the Southwest (1923) / 86 A Criticism of the Booster Spirit (1923) / 9B Pioneers and Gullies (1924) / 106 Grass, Brush, Timber, and Fire in Southern Arizona (1924) / II4 The River of the Mother of God (1924) / 123 Conserving the Covered Wagon (1925) / 128 The Pig in the Parlor (1925) / 133 Wilderness as a Form of Land Use (1925) / 134 The Home Builder Conserves (1928) / 143 Ho! Compadres Piiioneros! (1929) / 148 Report to the American Game Conference on an American Game Policy (1930) / 150 Game Methods: The American Way (1931) / 156 Game and Wild Life Conservation (1932) / 164 Grand-Opera Game (1932) / 169 The Virgin Southwest (1933) / 173 The Conservation Ethic (1933) / 181 Conservation Economics (1934) / 193 Helping Ourselves (1934) / 203 The Arboretum and the University (1934) / 209 Land Pathology (1935) / 212 Coon Valley: An Adventure in Cooperative Conservation (1935) / 218 Review of Elton, Exploring the Animal World (1935) / 224 Wilderness (1935) / 226 Threatened Species (1936) / 230 Means and Ends in Wild Life Management (1936) / 235 Conservationist in Mexico (1937) / 239 Contents vii Chukaremia (1938) / 245 Letter to a Wildflower Digger (1938) / 247 Engineering and Conservation (1938) / 249 The Farmer as a Conservationist (1939) / 255 A Biotic View of Land (1939) / 266 New Year's Inventory Checks Missing Game (1940) / 274 The State ofthe Profession (1940) / 276 Ecology and Politics (1941) / 281 Wilderness as a Land Laboratory (1941) / 287 The Last Stand (1942) / 290 Land-Use and Democracy (1942) / 295 The Role of Wildlife in a Liberal Education (1942) / 301 What Is a Weed? (1943) / 306 Conservation: In Whole or in Part? (1944) / 310 Review of Young and Goldman, The Wolves of North America (1945) / 320 The Outlook for Farm Wildlife (1945) / 323 Review of Farrington, The Ducks Came Back (1946) / 327 Adventures of a Conservation Commissioner (1946) / 330 Wherefore Wildlife Ecology? (1947) / 336 The Ecological Conscience (1947) / 338 PUBLICATIONS OF ALDO LEOPOLD / 349 INDEX / 371 Preface Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) is best known as the author of a slender volume of natural history vignettes and philosophical essays dealing with the rela tionship of people to land. Composed during the last decade of his life and published posthumously in 1949, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There expresses the distilled essence of Leopold's mature thought. At first the almanac's audience was small and select, consisting pri marily of professionals and dedicated amateurs in the conservation commu nity. Then, riding the crest of the cultural self-criticism and environmental awakening of the 1960s, it grew in popularity and was reprinted in several hardbound and paper editions, eventually surpassing Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Stewart Udall's Quiet Crisis, and Barry Commoner's Closing Circle liS the philosophical touchstone of the modern environmental movement. Today Sand County Almanac is regarded as a classic of natural history literature as well as the conservationist's bible, and its author is routinely called a modern American prophet. In retrospect, one may say without exaggeration that AIdo Leopold led a generation to a new perception of nature and to a new vision of relationship with the natural environment. However closely associated Leopold has been in the public mind with a single chef d'oeuvre, the strength of his reputation and the credibility of Sand County Almanac rest upon a lifetime of extraordinary professional achievement and a large body of other writing. During his tenure with the United States Forest Service from 1909 to 1928, Leopold was a leader and innovator in the young profession of forestry, especially in recreation plan ning, game management, and soil erosion control. He is considered the father of the national forest wilderness system and the father of the profes sion of wildlife management in America. From 1933 until his death in 1948, Leopold occupied the nation's first chair of game management, which was created for him at the University of Wisconsin. In the course of his life, he offered his remarkable leadership talents to more than a hundred conserva tion organizations, agencies, and committees. Every facet of his career left its IX
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