On 6/30/04 11:32 PM, in article , "Wayne
Knight" wrote:


"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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How comes it to be known the "Aldo Leopold Wilderness Area"?


If I understand the history correctly, he started his career in the
southwest and had something to do with getting the Gila national forest
designated a wilderness area in the 1920's.

Must have been cool to meet his students. I finally got a copy of the Sand
County Alamanac and throughly enjoyed the read. I'm going to be keeping an
eye out for other writings of his.

Wolfgang and Wayne-

Indeed, Leopold spent a fair amount of time out in Jon's neck of the woods,
as an employee of the U.S. Forest Service. The edition of Sand County
Alamanac that I own also has some of his writings about the desert southwest
in it. It also has a long treatise on what "wilderness" means. Good stuff.
Time to migrate that one up in your reading pile, Wolfgang. Perhaps we can
discuss over a steaming mug o' joe up north.

Bill