Reflections on Aldo Leopold

We saw a new DVD Sunday evening, July 31, on his life and work, at the RMNP Beaver Meadow Visitors Center.   

 http://www.greenfiremovie.com/ .

Some consider him in the same breath with John Muir and Thoreau. At one point in Leopold’s life, he was an enthusiastic proponent of game hunting and believed that all wolves/predators should be killed, thus resulting in more deer, elk, etc. for the hunters.  However, one lone incident changed him and the future forever.  This incident is described in these two links –

Aldo Leopold (January 11, 1887 – April 21, 1948) was an American author, scientist ecologist, forester, and environmentalist. He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin and is best known for his book A Sand County Almanac (1949), which has sold over two million copies.

 http://www.eco-action.org/dt/thinking.html  and

http://writingsfromwildsoul.wordpress.com/2011/04/21/%E2%80%9Ca-fierce-green-fire%E2%80%9D-for-aldo-leopold

Well worth the reading