Curt D. Meine is director for conservation biology and history with the Center for Humans and Nature; senior fellow with the Aldo Leopold Foundation; research associate with the International Crane Foundation; and associate adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is coeditor of The Essential Aldo Leopold, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
Aldo Leopold: A Reader's Testimony | p. xi |
Preface to the 2010 Edition | p. xvii |
Preface to the 1988 Edition | p. xxxiii |
Acknowledgments | p. xxxv |
Midwest | |
Sources (1843-1887) | p. 3 |
Prospect Hill (1887-1904) | p. 12 |
East | |
Lawrenceville (1904-1905) | p. 33 |
New Haven (1905-1906) | p. 51 |
Forest School (1906-1909) | p. 62 |
Southwest | |
Apache: The Breaks of the Blue (1909-1911) | p. 87 |
Carson: A Delightful Turmoil (1911-1913) | p. 106 |
On Top (1913-1915) | p. 124 |
"To Promote the Protection and Enjoyment of Wild Things..." (1915-1919) | p. 144 |
Chief of Operations (1919-1922) | p. 175 |
Pioneers and Gullies (1923-1924) | p. 211 |
Wisconsin | |
A Fish out of Water (1924-1928) | p. 231 |
"Game Methods: The American Way" (1928-1932) | p. 259 |
Consulting Forester (1932-1933) | p. 291 |
The Professor (1933-1934) | p. 308 |
The Value of Wilderness (1934-1935) | p. 340 |
Toward a Biotic View of Land (1936-1939) | p. 362 |
Digging Deeper (1939-1941) | p. 397 |
Land Use and Democracy (1942-1945) | p. 430 |
A Portent of a Different Future (1945-1947) | p. 474 |
Finale (1947-1948) | p. 506 |
Epilogue | p. 521 |
Abbreviations Used in Notes and Bibliography | p. 533 |
Notes | p. 535 |
Bibliography | p. 589 |
Index | p. 621 |
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“Of all the conservationists who have preceded us, Leopold was the most radical, the most complete, and therefore the most needed. . . . Because his writing has, to such an extent, the quality of his character, and because his character was so much that of a conservationist, it is particularly needful that we should know the story of his life. Curt Meine has supplied this need, and he helps us to see clearly how Leopold’s writing originated in his life. . . . Leopold was indistinguishably a man of words and a man of deeds, and we see this more clearly in Meine’s biography than in Leopold’s writings.”—Wendell Berry, from the appreciation