A quote from Leopold on the grounds of the foundation. Earlier this year we visited the Aldo Leopold Foundation . We had just watched a short documentary about his life and work, Green Fire , at my hometown library and were deeply moved by it. The similarities to my husband's family's efforts to restore habitat on family land struck us, but for me the film reminded me of what is best about my home state and region. There is a great deal that worries me at the moment and many things that I struggle with, yet what brought all of us together in that room was a love for place. It was a kind of comfort then, and my memory of the discussion afterward reminds me that there is good work underway and in many places. We were also surprised to realize that the Aldo Leopold Foundation and the shack where Leopold wrote his seminal work, The Sand County Almanac , was less than 20 miles away. We drove there the next day along a road I walked as a child with my grandmother and past Pin
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