TITLE: Global Environmental Change and a Sand County Almanac: What Would Aldo Leopold Think?
DATE: January 9th & 23rd, 2015
LOCATION: Montclair State University-University Hall, January 9th- Room 2002 and January 23rd- ADP Center, Room 1143
TIME: 8:30 AM-3:30 PM
INSTRUCTOR: Scott Kight
Aldo Leopold published A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There just prior to 1950. Leopold was gifted as both ecologist and writer, transforming his careful observations of the natural world into moving accounts of the changes wrought by human activity. Participants in this workshop will receive a copy of A Sand County Almanac to read prior to the scheduled sessions. During each session we will discuss contemporary research findings in ecology and conservation biology and attempt to address the question: "What would Aldo Leopold think?" The answer may be that long before the rest of us were even aware that we could cause global environmental change, Leopold was already thinking and writing about it.