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Author Leopold, Aldo, 1886-1948.

Title The river of the mother of God and other essays / by Aldo Leopold ; edited by Susan L. Flader and J. Baird Callicott
Published Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1991

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 384 pages) : illustrations
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents A tramp in November [1904] -- The maintenance of forests [1904] -- The busy season [1911] -- To the forest officers of the Carson [1913] -- The varmint question [1915] -- The popular wilderness fallacy : an idea that is fast exploding [1918] -- Forestry and game conservation [1918] -- Notes on the behavior of pintail ducks in a hailstorm [1919] -- Wild lifers vs. game farmers : a plea for democracy in sport [1919] -- "Piute Forestry" vs. forest fire prevention [1920] -- The forestry of the prophets [1920] -- The wilderness and its place in forest recreational policy [1921] -- Standards of conservation [1922] -- Some fundamentals of conservation in the Southwest [1923] -- A criticism of the booster spirit [1923] -- Pioneers and gullies [1924] -- Grass, brush, timber, and fire in southern Arizona [1924] -- The River of the Mother of God [1924]
Conserving the covered wagon [1925] -- The pig in the parlor [1925] -- Wilderness as a form of land use [1925] -- The home builder conserves [1928] -- Ho! Compadres piñoneros! [1929] -- Report to the American Game Conference on an American game policy [1930] -- Game methods : the American way [1931] -- Game and wild life conservation [1932] -- Grand-opera game [1932] -- The virgin Southwest [1933] -- The conservation ethic [1933] -- Conservation economics [1934] -- Helping ourselves [1934] -- The arboretum and the university [1934] -- Land pathology [1935] -- Coon Valley : an adventure in cooperative conservation [1935] -- Review of Elton, Exploring the animal world [1935] -- Wilderness [1935] -- Threatened species [1936] -- Means and ends in wild life management [1936] -- Conservationist in Mexico [1937] -- Chukaremia [1938] -- Letter to a wildflower digger [1938] -- Engineering and conservation [1938] -- The farmer as a conservationist [1939] -- A biotic view of land [1939] -- New Year's inventory checks missing game [1940] -- The state of the profession [1940] -- Ecology and politics [1941] -- Wilderness as a land laboratory [1941] -- The last stand [1942] -- Land-use and democracy [1942] -- The role of wildlife in a liberal education [1942] -- What is a weed? [1943] -- Conservation : in whole or in part? [1944] -- Review of Young and Goldman, The wolves of North America [1945] -- The outlook for farm wildlife [1945] -- Review of Farrington, The ducks came back [1946] -- Adventures of a conservation commissioner [1946] -- Wherefore wildlife ecology? [1947] -- The ecological conscience [1947]
Summary This book includes fifty-nine essays by the environmentalist author best known for presenting a call for conservation efforts in his book A Sand County Almanac
Analysis Natural resources Conservation
United States
Notes Includes index
Bibliography "Publications of Aldo Leopold": pages 349-370
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SUBJECT Leopold, Aldo 1886-1948 gnd
Subject Nature conservation.
Natural history -- Outdoor books.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biological Diversity.
NATURE -- Animals -- Wildlife.
Natural history
Nature conservation
Umweltethik
Genre/Form Guidebooks
essays.
Essays.
Essais.
Form Electronic book
Author Flader, Susan.
Callicott, J. Baird.
LC no. 90045491
ISBN 9780299127633
029912763X
0585177821
9780585177823
9780299127640
0299127648
9781282555402
1282555405
Other Titles River of the mother of God