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109 Notes Manuscript sources include records of the Aldo Leopold Foundation and the Sand County Foundation, as well the Aldo Leopold Archives of the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center (available online at http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/AldoLeopold). As this manuscript was being completed, the Aldo Leopold Foundation and the Sand County Foundation records were being relocated and some had been renamed on multiple occasions. Every effort was made by the author to provide the most recent location of these sources. In December 2013, the Sand County Foundation donated reserve-related materials to the University of Wisconsin–Madison Archives for long-term preservation. e Leopold Foundation is in the process of finalizing the location of historical documents at its reserve headquarters. Oral history interviews with Nina Leopold Bradley, Reed Coleman, Howard Mead, and Frank Terbilcox were conducted by Mark Madison, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) historian, and Stephen Laubach , University of Wisconsin–Madison. Interviews with Susan Flader, Estella Leopold, and Trish Stevenson were conducted by Stephen Laubach, University of Wisconsin–Madison. Recordings and transcripts are located at the USFWS National Digital Library (http://digitalmedia.fws.gov/cdm/ landingpage/collection/document). Introduction 1. Details about the March 1965 dinner and 1930s–1940s trips to the shack are from separate interviews with Reed Coleman, Howard Mead, and Frank Terbilcox by Mark Madison and Stephen Laubach on 28–30 October 2009, and from phone conversations with Coleman and Mead by the author on 17 May 2011. e Leopold family, as the fifth family, did not formally sign the agreement until June 1968 but were involved in all discussions. 2. ere is much scholarship on the history of conservation that informs this book. A few examples include Meine, Correction Lines; Flader, “Building Conservation ”; Maher, Nature’s New Deal; Armitage, Nature Study Movement; Hays, Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency; Reiger, American Sportsmen; and Knight and Landres, Stewardship across Boundaries. 3. Land trusts protect over 47 million acres of land in the United States. See Chang, 2010 National Land Trust Census Report, available at http://www.land trustalliance.org/land-trusts/land-trust-census/2010-final-report. While land trusts are a fast-growing area of land conservation, total acreage in land trusts is still dwarfed by holdings at the federal and state levels. e US Forest Service, for example, manages 193 million acres (see http://www.fs.fed.us/), and the National Park Service oversees 84 million acres (see http://www.nps.gov/faqs.htm). For more information on land trusts see Brewer, Conservancy. 4. Lubowski et al., Major Uses of Land. Others put the number as high as 85 percent. Information on the acreage in land trusts was also provided by Brent Haglund and Stanley Temple in conversations with the author on 5 December 2011. 5. Meine, Aldo Leopold. 6. From an unpublished 1944 essay by Aldo Leopold, “Conservation: In Whole or in Part?” in Flader and Callicott, River of the Mother of God, 310–19. In an example of a reserve ecologist using Leopold’s concept of land health several decades later, Dr. Alan Haney, paraphrasing Leopold, explained in 1995 that healthy lands “maintain stability, recycle nutrients, absorb and release water, build and protect soil, and develop and maintain appropriate habitats for component species.” Sand County Foundation Newsletter, Summer 1995, Sand County Foundation (hereafter, SCF), cabinet 1, drawer 2, “Newsletters and Brochures, 1971–2004.” 7. For more on these projects, see Meine, Aldo Leopold, and Flader, inking Like a Mountain. 8. Information on the history of the Riley Game Cooperative is from Meine, Aldo Leopold, 281–82, and from Silbernagel and Silbernagel, “Tracking Aldo Leopold.” 9. From a 1934 Field and Stream article, “Helping Ourselves,” in Flader and Callicott, River of the Mother of God, 203–8. 10. For more on the difficulties, but also the benefits, of cooperative conservation , see Freyfogle, Land We Share, 171–74. Notes 110 11. e first quotation, which is from a book review Leopold wrote in 1937, is from Meine and Knight, Essential Aldo Leopold, 186. e second quotation, also from Meine and Knight (187), is from an unpublished draft document written in 1940. 12. For an eloquent narrative focusing almost exclusively on the Leopold family ’s contributions to the reserve’s formation, see Mills, chap. 5, “e Leopolds’ Shack,” in In Service of the Wild. 13. Later, in 1967, the Department of Game Management changed its name to the Department of Wildlife Ecology to reflect a...