10 Things Aldo Leopold Used in the Field
UW professor Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac is one of the most beloved and respected books about the environment ever published. The Leopold Collection — housed within UW Archives — documents the noted ecologist’s path to becoming the most influential conservation thinker of the 20th century, as well as the history of conservation and the emergence of the field of ecology from the early 1900s until his death in 1948. The collection includes student notebooks and course materials from Leopold’s early studies, copies of his inspection reports on many national forests in the Southwest, and hundreds of family photos, as well as images he captured to illustrate aspects of wildlife ecology and land management.

Winchester rifle UW Archives AldoLeopold.leo0752.bib

Slide rule and planimeter, used to measure distances and land areas on maps UW Archives AldoLeopold.leo0739.bib

Pipes UW Archives AldoLeopold.leo0753.bib

A Field Guide to the Birds, by Roger Tory Peterson UW Archives AldoLeopold.leo0744.bib

Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America, by Frank M. Chapman UW Archives AldoLeopold.leo0748.bib

Light meter, used to measure the light intensity at which different species of birds first began singing at dawn UW Archives AldoLeopold.leo0733.bib

Hunting bow Leopold made with bowstring UW Archives AldoLeopold.leo0740.bib

Field glasses UW Archives AldoLeopold.leo0741.bib

Arrows Leopold made UW Archives AldoLeopold.leo0744.bib

Map of Shack area and river, with inset photo of Luna, Sauk County, Wisconsin, Autumn 1943 UW Archives AldoLeopold.leo1184.bib
Published in the Winter 2017 issue
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