Overview

Aldo Leopold (January 11, 1887 - April 21, 1948) was an American bioethicist, ecologist, forester, and environmentalist. He wrote A Sand County Almanac, published in 1949, and was influential in the development of modern environmental ethics and the wilderness preservation movement. Leopold is considered to be the father of wildlife management in the United States and was a life-long fisherman and hunter.

Quotes

• "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise."

• "An ethic, ecologically, is a limitation on freedom of action in the struggle for existence."

• "Land ecology discards at the outset the fallacious notion that the wild community is one thing, the human community another."
  

External Links

• Aldo Leopold Foundation
  
  
• Excerpts from the Works of Aldo Leopold
  
  
• The Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute is the only federal research group in the United States dedicated to the development and dissemination of knowledge needed to improve management of wilderness, parks, and similarly protected areas.
  
  
• Aldo Leopold Leadership Program - "Inspired by Aldo Leopold's plain-spoken yet science-based approach to conservation, the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program trains environmental scientists to communicate their work effectively to a variety of lay audiences."
  
  
• Leopold Education Project - The Leopold Education Project (LEP) is an innovative, interdisciplinary, critical thinking, conservation and environmental education curriculum based on the classic writings of the renowned conservationist.
  
  
• Aldo Leopold, Author of the Land Ethic - Profile of the co-founder of The Wilderness Society.