A Sand County Almanac

A Sand County Almanac

First edition
Author	Aldo Leopold
Cover artist	Charles Schwartz
Language	English
Subject	Ecology, Environmentalism
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Publication date	1949
Publication place	United States
Pages	240 pp
ISBN	0-19-500777-8
OCLC	3799061

A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There is a 1949 non-fiction book by American ecologist, forester, and environmentalist Aldo Leopold. Describing the land around the author's home in Sauk County, Wisconsin, the collection of essays advocate Leopold's idea of a "land ethic", or a responsible relationship existing between people and the land they inhabit. Edited and published by his son, Luna, a year after Leopold's death, the book is considered a landmark in the American conservation movement.

The book has had over two million copies printed and has been translated into at least fourteen languages.^[1] It has informed and changed the environmental movement and stimulated a widespread interest in ecology as a science.