A fierce green fire : Aldo Leopold's life and legacy / Marybeth Lorbiecki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lorbiecki, Marybeth, author.

Standardized Title:

Aldo Leopold

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leopold, Aldo, 1887-1948.

Leopold, Aldo.

Leopold, Aldo, 1886-1948.

Naturalists--Wisconsin--Biography.

Naturalists.

Conservationists--Wisconsin--Biography.

Conservationists.

Wisconsin.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxii, 377 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

New edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]

Summary:

For anyone interested in wildlife, birds, wilderness areas, parks, ecology, conservation, environmental literature, and ethics, the name Aldo Leopold is sure to pop up. Since first publication, Aldo Leopold: A Fierce Green Fire has remained the classic short, inspiring biography of Leopold-the perfect companion to reading his ever popular A Sand County Almanac. Winning numerous awards, this comprehensive account of his life story is dynamic and readable, written in the context of the history of American conservation and illustrated with historic photographs. Marybeth Lorbiecki has now enriched A Fierce Green Fire in a way no other biography on Leopold has, adding numerous chapters on the ripple effects of his ideas, books, ecological vision, land ethic, and Shack, as well as of the ecological contributions of his children, graduate students, contemporary scholars, and organizations-and the wilderness lands he helped preserve. Lorbiecki weaves these stories and factual information into the biography in a compelling way that keeps both lay and academic readers engaged. In the introduction to this edition, Lorbiecki makes it clear how much better our lives are because Leopold lived and why today we so radically need what he left us to bring about paradigm shifts in our ethical, economic, and cultural thinking. Instead of losing relevance, Leopold's legacy has gained ever more necessity and traction in the face of contemporary national and world challenges, such as species loss and climate change. Even the phenological studies he started at as a hobby are proving valuable, showing the climatic shifts that have occurred at the Shack lands since the 1930s, recognized by the plants and animals. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Aldo Leopold's Life and Writings

1 Lug-Ins-Land: 1887-1901 3

2 Ornithologists and Explorations: 1901-1903 16

3 The Naturalist Out East: 1903-1905 22

4 Women and Wise Use: 1905-1909 31

5 A Cowboy in Love: 1909-1912 39

6 New Life and Near Death: 1912-1914 51

7 Save That Game: 1915-1919 60

8 A Wild Proposal: 1919-1924 74

9 Surveying the Field: 1924-1933 86

10 The Land Laboratories: 1933-1936 108

11 The Professor: 1937-1939 128

12 Paths of Violence: 1939-1945 139

13 Great Possessions: 1945-1948 152

14 Adios and Happy Trails 160

Part 2 Updates from Here and There

15 All in the Family 165

16 Aldo's Students and Colleagues 204

17 The Shack, the Aldo Leopold Foundation, and Other Leopold Initiatives 226

18 The Wilderness Idea 239

19 The Endangered Species and Youth: Keeping All the Cogs and Wheels 254

20 The Farmer as Conservationist... and Restorationist 276

21 The Round River of Ecological Economics and Development 285

Part 3 The Upshot

22 The Land Ethic 299

23 Love and the Restoration of Ourselves 316.

Notes:

Previous editions have title: Aldo Leopold : a fierce green fire.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199965038

019996503X

OCLC:

910475447