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Smith: Centennial of nation’s first wilderness area highlights Aldo Leopold’s legacy

We Wisconsinites who value the natural world and outdoor recreation hold Aldo Leopold in especially high esteem.

Not only was Leopold a pioneering ecologist, forester and author who profoundly influenced the modern conservation movement, but he spent much of his adult life in the Badger State as a professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and cultivator of his family’s “shack” on an old farm near Baraboo along the Wisconsin River.