When Aldo Leopold spoke on June 17, 1934, at the dedication of the UW Arboretum, he stood in the middle of two square miles of derelict farmland.
There was no rumble of traffic from the Beltline because the Beltline did not exist. To the south was nothing but more farmland. There were a few housing developments nearby but mostly the city and the Arboretum’s parent university were miles away across more fields and woodlots.
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