| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
Cover; Stories from the Leopold Shack: Sand County Revisited; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; EPIGRAPH; CONTENTS ; PREFACE ; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; Chapter One: The Shack Enterprise ; Rebuilding ; The Inaugural Visit ; We Meet the Neighbors ; The Shack: Look, Mother, Someone Lives There! ; Planting Pines ; The Music of Our Days and Nights ; Our Second Fireplace, a Remodel (1936) ; The Flying Visitor ; Woopsie! ; Chapter Two: Winter ; Cutting Wood, Banding Birds ; Our Shack Is Vandalized ; The Slough and the River ; Games in Winter ; Cutting the Good Oak ; Chapter Three: Spring ; Planting Again |
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Poco and Pedro Sky Dance ; Warbler Watching ; Meat Rock and Calling to the Owls ; Goose Music ; What Species Do the Deer Prefer? ; Road Kill for Supper ; Chapter Four: Summer ; The Rhythms of Summer ; Tree House ; Leopold Benches ; Our Beach ; On the Shores of Lake Chapman ; What We Found in the Sand Blow ; Later Years: Building Trails ; Chapter Five: Fall ; Bounty from Our Shack Garden and Orchard ; Carl's Hawks ; Hunting Traditions ; Early Deer Hunting Near the Shack Property ; Dad and Gus ; Chapter Six: The Evolving Archery Endeavors ; Artisan and Archery ; Roving and Archery Practice |
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Mother's Tournament Successes Lady Diana ; Hunting at the Shack and Beyond ; Chapter Seven: The Shack Landscape and Its Restoration: ; The Lay of the Land ; Glacial Carvings: The Johnstown Moraine and the Green Bay Lobe ; Early Forests ; Vegetation Phases ; Early and Historical Records ; What We Did on the Land: Restoration Efforts ; The Shack Yard-and the Plants We Love ; The Old Cornfield, and Finding the Natives ; Maples Soft and Hard ; Our Vegetable Garden and the Original Orchard ; Moist Prairie South of the River Road ; The Sand Blow ; Tamaracks ; "Pines Planted. Do Not Molest." |
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The Neighbor's Fire, April 21, 1948 We Plant an Oak ; Chapter Eight: The Continuing Process of Restoration,1948:-Present; The Aldo Leopold Memorial Reserve ; The Bradley Study Center and a Prairie Experiment ; The Leopold Fellows Program ; The Significance of Prairie Building ; The Aldo Leopold Foundation ; Charlie Bradley's Woods and Prairie ; Restored Vegetation Areas ; Oak Forests and Resilient Prairie Plants ; Of Sandhill Cranes and Ducks ; Nina's Phenology ; Other Restoration Projects ; Driftless Area Landowners ; Chapter Nine: The Shack Idea ; The Results: A Mosaic |
| Summary |
Estella Leopold, the daughter of revered American ecologist, conservationist and writer Aldo Leopold, whose A Sand County Almanac is an enduring American classic, takes us inside the place where ""land ethic"" theory started |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 7, 2016) |
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Restoration ecology -- Wisconsin
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Restoration ecology -- United States
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Nature conservation -- Wisconsin
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Nature conservation -- United States
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NATURE -- Essays.
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NATURE -- Reference.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Ecotourism.
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Nature conservation
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Restoration ecology
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Sauk County (Wis.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80094065
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United States
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Wisconsin
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Wisconsin -- Sauk County
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Leopold, A. Carl (Aldo Carl), 1919-2009, photography.
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| ISBN |
9780190463236 |
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0190463236 |
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9780190463229 |
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0190463228 |
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0190463244 |
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9780190463243 |
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