Leopold’s Shack and Ricketts’s Lab: The Emergence of Environmentalism

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Leopold’s Shack and Ricketts’s Lab The Emergence of Environmentalism Michael J. Lannoo UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley Los Angeles London Leopold’s Shack and Ricketts’s Lab The publisher gratefully acknowledges the generous contribution to this book provided by Indiana State University. Leopold’s Shack and Ricketts’s Lab The Emergence of Environmentalism Michael J. Lannoo UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley Los Angeles London University of California Press, one of the most distinguished university presses in the United States, enriches lives around the world by advancing scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Its activities are supported by the UC Press Foundation and by philanthropic contributions from individuals and institutions. For more information, visit www.ucpress.edu. University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England© 2010 by The Regents of the University of California Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lannoo, Michael J. Leopold’s Shack and Ricketts’s Lab : the emergence of environmentalism / Michael J. Lannoo. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-520-26478-6 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Environmentalism—United States—History. 2. Natural History—United States—History. 3. Ecology—United States— History. 4. Leopold, Aldo, 1886–1948. 5. Ricketts, Edward Flanders, 1897–1948. I. Title. ge195.l37 2010 333.72092'2—dc22 2009044829 Manufactured in the United States of America 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 This book is printed on Cascades Enviro 100, a 100% post consumer waste, recycled, de-inked fiber. FSC recycled certified and processed chlorine free. It is acid free, Ecologo certified, and manufactured by BioGas energy. For Pete and Angus Strings and Keyboards: Keep playing your music, we’ll get things turned around This page intentionally left blank Every now and then [life] becomes literature—not for long, of course, but long enough to be what we best remember, and often enough that what we eventually come to mean by life are those moments when life, instead of going sideways, backwards, forward , or nowhere at all, lines out straight, tense and inevitable, with a complication, climax, and, given some luck, a purgation, as if life had been made and not happened. Norman Maclean, “USFS 1919: The Ranger, the Cook, and a Hole in the Sky” This page intentionally left blank ...