[APWG] Any ELDERS?

[Ed Shadrick]

I drew the information below from foundation websites set up in these Elder's memories to continue their work.  In some sense, while the corporeal is gone, their spirit lives on.  

Aldo Leopold is the author of A Sand County Almanac, among many others including scholarly essays on wildlife management, predator management, and ecosystem restoration.  He was born in Iowa in 1887 and did most of his professional work for the Forest Service in the Southwest until breaking away on his own, eventually becoming a Professor of Game Management at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and working throughout the nation.  Leopold was among the first to formulate what is now called a land ethic, a way of stewarding land and its resources for the benefit of future generations.  He also was one of the first to speak out against the practice predator eradication in the West.  He died of a heart attack in 1947 while fighting a grass fire on a neighbor's farm.  There is much more on the Aldo Leopold Foundation website at http://www.aldoleopold.org/, including this quote: "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community."

Sigurd Olson (1899-1982) was one of a group of influential nature writers who had an impact on the dawning of the environmental protection movement early in the 20th century.   He also was an influential conservationist, playing a role in the preservation of a number of natural areas that became national parks, seashores, and wilderness areas, including the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.  He was born in Chicago, but spent much of his childhood in northern Wisconsin.  He later became Dean of Ely Junior College in Ely, Minnesota, later resigning to be a full-time writer and environmental activist.  During the fight to save the Quetico-Superior as wilderness, he played a role in the passing of the Wilderness Act.  More on the website at: http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/JMC/Olson/profile.htm. 

Both were honored numerous times.    



-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Dremann [mailto:craig at ecoseeds.com]
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 1:19 PM
To: Ed Shadrick
Cc: apwg at lists.plantconservation.org
Subject: Re: [APWG] Any ELDERS?


Dear Ed,

Thanks for your clarification of "elder"--can you provide any more
information about the two you mentioned: Aldo Leopold and Sigurd Olson?

The approx. dates of their work or their lives, what State they worked
in, and what their contributions were, would be of interest, and have
they ever been honored?

Sincerely,  Craig Dremann, The Reveg Edge (650) 325-7333