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Stories from the Leopold shack : sand county revisited /
Estella Leopold, the daughter of revered American ecologist, conservationist and writer Aldo Leopold, whose A Sand County Almanac is an enduring American classic, takes us inside the place where ""land ethic"" theory started.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
[2016]
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- Cover; Stories from the Leopold Shack: Sand County Revisited; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; EPIGRAPH; CONTENTS ; PREFACE ; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; Chapter One: The Shack Enterprise ; Rebuilding ; The Inaugural Visit ; We Meet the Neighbors ; The Shack: Look, Mother, Someone Lives There! ; Planting Pines ; The Music of Our Days and Nights ; Our Second Fireplace, a Remodel (1936) ; The Flying Visitor ; Woopsie! ; Chapter Two: Winter ; Cutting Wood, Banding Birds ; Our Shack Is Vandalized ; The Slough and the River ; Games in Winter ; Cutting the Good Oak ; Chapter Three: Spring ; Planting Again
- Poco and Pedro Sky Dance ; Warbler Watching ; Meat Rock and Calling to the Owls ; Goose Music ; What Species Do the Deer Prefer? ; Road Kill for Supper ; Chapter Four: Summer ; The Rhythms of Summer ; Tree House ; Leopold Benches ; Our Beach ; On the Shores of Lake Chapman ; What We Found in the Sand Blow ; Later Years: Building Trails ; Chapter Five: Fall ; Bounty from Our Shack Garden and Orchard ; Carl's Hawks ; Hunting Traditions ; Early Deer Hunting Near the Shack Property ; Dad and Gus ; Chapter Six: The Evolving Archery Endeavors ; Artisan and Archery ; Roving and Archery Practice
- Mother's Tournament Successes Lady Diana ; Hunting at the Shack and Beyond ; Chapter Seven: The Shack Landscape and Its Restoration: ; The Lay of the Land ; Glacial Carvings: The Johnstown Moraine and the Green Bay Lobe ; Early Forests ; Vegetation Phases ; Early and Historical Records ; What We Did on the Land: Restoration Efforts ; The Shack Yard-and the Plants We Love ; The Old Cornfield, and Finding the Natives ; Maples Soft and Hard ; Our Vegetable Garden and the Original Orchard ; Moist Prairie South of the River Road ; The Sand Blow ; Tamaracks ; "Pines Planted. Do Not Molest."
- The Neighbor's Fire, April 21, 1948 We Plant an Oak ; Chapter Eight: The Continuing Process of Restoration,1948:-Present; The Aldo Leopold Memorial Reserve ; The Bradley Study Center and a Prairie Experiment ; The Leopold Fellows Program ; The Significance of Prairie Building ; The Aldo Leopold Foundation ; Charlie Bradley's Woods and Prairie ; Restored Vegetation Areas ; Oak Forests and Resilient Prairie Plants ; Of Sandhill Cranes and Ducks ; Nina's Phenology ; Other Restoration Projects ; Driftless Area Landowners ; Chapter Nine: The Shack Idea ; The Results: A Mosaic