Aldo Leopold

Aldo Leopold
Leopold in 1946
Born	(1887-01-11)January 11, 1887 Burlington, Iowa, U.S.
Died	April 21, 1948(1948-04-21) (aged 61) Baraboo, Wisconsin, U.S.
Resting place	Aspen Grove Cemetery Burlington, Iowa, U.S.
Occupation	Author ecologist forester nature writer
Education	Yale University
Subject	Conservation, land ethic, land health, ecological conscience
Notable works	A Sand County Almanac
Spouse	Estella Leopold
Children	A. Starker Leopold, Luna B. Leopold, Nina Leopold Bradley, A. Carl Leopold, Estella Leopold
Website
www.aldoleopold.org

Aldo Leopold (January 11, 1887 – April 21, 1948) was an American writer, philosopher, naturalist, scientist, ecologist, forester, conservationist, and environmentalist. He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin and is best known for his book A Sand County Almanac (1949), which has been translated into fourteen languages and has sold more than two million copies.^[1]

Leopold was influential in the development of modern environmental ethics and in the movement for wilderness conservation. His ethics of nature and wildlife preservation had a profound impact on the environmental movement, with his ecocentric or holistic ethics regarding land.^[2] He emphasized biodiversity and ecology and was a founder of the science of wildlife management.^[3]