UW Arboretum on New Year's Day 2010 Photograph © Nadine Goff
Join a tour of the UW -Madison Arboretum from 1 p.m. until 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 7th, 2010 that will show you “the places where Aldo Leopold, the Arboretum’s first director, conducted wildlife research and helped to establish the first-ever restoration of Wisconsin’s natural ecosystems.”
Participants will hear brief excerpts from his writings at appropriate points along the way.
The free tour starts at the Arboretum Visitor Center, 1207 Seminole Highway.
If you’d like to learn more about Aldo Leopold, considered by many people to have been the most influential conservation thinker of the 20th Century, visit The Aldo Leopold Archives online at the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections.
You may interested in reading some of Leopold’s books, including A Sand County Almanac.
