Symposium Examines Leopold’s Legacy

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<h3 style="color:#666;">Symposium Examines Leopold’s Legacy</h3>
<p><span class="dropcap">A</span>ldo Leopold believed that nature has rights independent of people and that the fate of humanity is intimately linked with the health of the land. Those beliefs culminated in a classic piece of environmental literature, <i>A Sand County Almanac</i>, in which Leopold articulates a land ethic that has been a source of inspiration for stewards of the environment for generations. On April 3, F&ES celebrated the centennial of Leopold’s graduation from the Yale Forest School <img src="http://environment.yale.edu/magazine/uploads/09Fall-Leopold.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 9px 10px 9px 0;" width="123" height="144" /> with a symposium that examined his critical contributions to environmental conservation. Natural scientists, environmental historians, Leopold biographers, environmentalists, philosophers and other luminaries discussed Leopold’s place in American environmental history; his contributions to philosophy, ethics and natural resource management; how the land ethic might be recast for an increasingly urban community and the global environmental and social challenges of this century; and what he might have said to this year’s F&ES graduates. To listen to audio recordings from the symposium, visit <a title="Leopold Conference recordings" href="/leopold/pages/program/">the conference website</a>.</p><p> <img src="http://environment.yale.edu/magazine/uploads/09Fall-LeopoldFamily-sm.jpg" width="440" height="291" /> </p><p><i>Above: Estella Leopold, right, Aldo’s daughter, and Clare Kazanski, Leopold’s great-granddaughter, shared some of their thoughts about Leopold. </i>Estella recalled a morning at the “shack,” a getaway for the Leopold family in the Wisconsin wilderness, her father rising early to write: “I came down for coffee and he put his pencil down. He handed me some yellow papers with some handwriting on them and said, ‘Do you want to see…

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