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Article: GATHERINGS SET IN HONOR OF ALDO LEOPOLD.(FRONT)
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- The Capital Times
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- March 4, 2005
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MILWAUKEE (AP) -- The father of the modern-day science of ecology will be the focus of attention at community events across Wisconsin this weekend, as people gather to read his words and take part in a wide array of nature-based activities.
But what would Aldo Leopold think of our environmental progress in the nearly six decades since he died just before publication of his landmark book, "A Sand County Almanac," in which he called for a new land ethic to guide humans in dealing with nature?
When he died in 1948, freeways had not yet opened the landscape to faster travel and the Wisconsin deer herd had yet to grow far past 1 million animals, as it did in ...