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Aldo Leopold
Aldo Leopold was born on January 11, 1887 in Burlington, Iowa to German immigrant Carl Leopold and Clara Starker. His full name is Rand Aldo Leopold and was named after two of his father’s business partners and later came to be known only by his middle name - Aldo. He had 3 brothers & sisters: Mary Luize, Carl Starker and Frederic. He was raised spending much of his time outdoors where he learned to appreciate nature. As a young boy he loved to hunt, hike and fish with his father and spent a lot of time cataloging birds. Every summer his family took a vacation to Michigan, in the heavily wooded area of Lake Huron coastline. There he and his siblings would explore a group of islands and became drawn to all the wonders of nature.
Aldo was a very good student in school and aspired to attend the forestry school at Yale University. But, he couldn’t as that was a school for graduate students. So, instead he enrolled in a preparatory school in New Jersey in 1904 called Lawrenceville School. Not long after enrolling in this school, Aldo was being introduced as the naturalist because he often took long daily tramps into …show more content…

There he continued with his nature outings and also drew up a map of that countryside. It was soon thereafter that he became employed in the U.S. Forest Service where he was assigned to the Arizona and New Mexico territories and first settled in the Apache National Forest in Arizona and continued drawing maps. Later, he was employed by the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers’ Institute and began surveying game in the area. In his study he outlined a detailed report of game conservation, made recommendations and suggestions for further research into his study. It was thru his efforts of this study that he was appointed as a professor of Wildlife management in the Agricultural Economic Department at the Wisconsin-Madison

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