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In a time of social and environmental crisis, Aldo Leopold's call for a 'land ethic' is still relevant

  • Written by Curt D. Meine, Adjunct Associate Professor of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
imageIn 1935 Aldo Leopold bought a depleted Wisconsin farm and restored it to prairie grassland.Bill Hall, AOC Solutions/USFWS/Flickr, CC BY

An ongoing reckoning with race in American history has drawn attention to racism in the environmental movement. Critiques have focused on themes such as forced removal of Indigenous peoples from ancestral lands,...

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