You can?t see the Shack from the road. It sits hidden amid pine and hardwood on a winding path that leads to the sandy shore of the Wisconsin River. You may be disappointed when you do see it.
The Shack isn?t much to look at – just an old reformed chicken coop that a University of Wisconsin professor and his brood cleaned up years ago and made into a weekend haunt. But, of course, the Shack has a deeper meaning for those of us concerned about the land. It?s a metaphor for the simple yet powerful ethic that conservationist Aldo Leopold came to understand and then express so clearly.