Aldo Leopold
American writer and scientist (1887-1948) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 61
Aldo Leopold was an American writer, philosopher, naturalist, scientist, ecologist, forester, professor, conservationist, and environmentalist.
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Leopold's entry in the Yale Sheffield Scientific School yearbook, 1908
Leopold's headstone at his family plot in Aspen Grove Cemetery in Burlington, Iowa
Aldo Leopold with quiver and bow seated on rimrock above the Rio Gavilan in northern Mexico while on a bow hunting trip in 1938
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He taught at the University of Wisconsin and is best known for his book A Sand County Almanac (1949), which has been translated into fifteen languages and has sold more than two million copies.
