{"product_id":"stories-from-the-leopold-shack-sand-county-revisited-new","title":"Stories From The Leopold Shack: Sand County Revisited,New","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1934, Conservationist Aldo Leopold And His Wife Estella Bought A Barn  The Remnant Of A Farm  And Surrounding Lands In Southcentral Wisconsin. The Entire Leopold Clan  Five Children In All  Worked Together To Put Into Practice Aldo'S 'Land Ethic,' Which Involved Ecological Restoration And Sustainability. In The Process, They Built More Than A Pleasant Weekend Getaway; They Established A New Way Of Relating To Nature. In 1948, A Sand County Almanac Was Published, And It Has Become A Beloved And Foundational Text Of The Conservation Movement.Decades Later, Estella B. Leopold, The Youngest Of The Leopold Children  She Was Eight When They Bought The Land  Now Reflects On The 'Shack,' As They Called The Repurposed Barn, And Its Inhabitants, And Recalls With Cleareyed Fondness The Part It Played In Her And Her Siblings' Burgeoning Awareness Of Nature'S Miracles, Season By Season. In Stories From The Leopold Shack: Sand County Revisited, She Unforgettably Recalls The Intensity Of Those Days: The Taste Of Fresh Honey On Sourdough Pancakes; The Trumpeting Arrival Of Migrating Canada Geese; The Awesome Power Of River Ice Driven By Currents  And Each Description Is Accompanied By Stunning Photographs By Her Brother, A. Carl Leopold. As The Leopolds Worked To Restore Degraded Farmland Back To Its Original Prairie And Woods, They Noted And Celebrated All Of The Flora And Fauna That Came To Share The Shack Lands.As First Evoked In A Sand County Almanac, And Now Revisited In Stories From The Leopold Shack, The Leopold Family'S Efforts Of Ecological Restoration Were Among The Earliest In The United States, And Their Work, Collectively And Individually, Continues To Have A Profound Impact On Land Management And Conservationism. All Of Aldo And Estella Leopold'S Children Went On To Become Distinguished Scientists And To Devote Themselves To A Life Of Conservation; Their Work Continues Through The Aldo Leopold Foundation. Estella B. Leopold Book Offers A Voyage Back To The Place Where It All Began.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46575095185653,"sku":"DADAX0190463228","price":26.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/71yWpV-4kGL.jpg?v=1745047375","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/stories-from-the-leopold-shack-sand-county-revisited-new","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}