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Who Is Aldo Leopold?
Aldo Leopold was born January 11, 1887, in Burlington Iowa and is the religion Lutheran. Aldo’s parent's names are Carl Leopold and Clara Starker and his siblings are May Luiz, Carl starker and Frederic Leopold. Though German was his first language, yet he managed to master English at a very young age. From early childhood, he was a keen observer of nature and learned woodcraft and hunting from his father. After attending Prospect Hill Elementary, he studied at Burlington High School. Later, he decided to pursue a career in forestry for which he went to study forestry at Yale University.In 1904, he attended The Lawrenceville School, a preparatory college in New Jersey so that he could enter Yale University. During his stay at Lawrenceville, …show more content…
This phase of his career kept him in the same location until 1924 and it included developing the very first management plan for the Grand Canyon. He also wrote the Forest Service’s very first fish and game handbook. That time was also when he proposed the Gila Wilderness Area which is the country’s first national wilderness area recorded in the Forest Service system. This proposal was submitted in 1922, and completion of the handbook was in 1923. A few years later in 1939, he became the chairman of the new Department of Wildlife Management which was at the University of …show more content…
And it was here Leopold visualized many of the essays in A Sand County Almanac. Leopold's unique gift for communicating scientific concepts was only equal to his fervor for putting theories into practice. He published over 300 articles, papers, newsletters, and letters, but his articles on wilderness wrote his biographer Curt Meine, established him "as the nation's foremost spokesman for the preservation of wild country, and sparked a national debate over what became known as 'the wilderness ideal.'" He was able to publish over 300 articles about the wilderness in his lifetime. In 1948, soon after his last work called the “A Sand County Almanac,” he was struck by heart attack and died on April 21. During the incident, he had been fighting a grass fire on one of his neighbor’s farms. He was later on buried in Burlington, Iowa, his

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