Leopold Bio

1.       Aldo Leopold was considered the father of wild life and ecology. He was a scientist, a scholar, a teacher, a philosopher and a writer. He is well known for a book hewrote called A Sand County Almanac. Leopold is very significant in the environmental field because while in the U.S Forest Service, he began to see the land as a living organismand he developed the concept of community.

      The book A Sand County Almanac,  was written in 1949. This book describes Aldo Leopold’s surroundings; it describes Sauk County,Wisconsin.

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Aldo Leopold’s thesis is that we should look at the land around usas a community, not only including humans but also animals and everything that is in it.

Leopold supports his thesis by giving examples of for example how government looksat communities.

In order to understand this essay I had to read it more than once. I also went online and did some research.



Aldo Leopold environmentalist and writer,says in his essay, The Land Ethic, that “one of the requisites for an ecological comprehension of land is an understanding of ecology” (128). One must understand ecology.