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

Contents

Preface xiii Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 Chapter 1. Out of the Midwest 8 Chapter 2. From Forester to Professor 14 Chapter 3. From Businessman to Sage 22 Chapter 4. Game Management 32 Chapter 5. Between Pacific Tides 36 CONTENTS intercalary i Chapter 6. The Shack 47 Chapter 7. The Lab 59 intercalary ii Chapter 8. A Sand County Almanac 79 Chapter 9. Sea of Cortez 88 intercalary iii Chapter 10. Daily Lives and Professional Expectations 103 Chapter 11. From Natural History to Ecology 108 Chapter 12. Leopold’s Approach 117 Chapter 13. Ricketts’s Approach 125 Chapter 14. Shared and Complementary Perspectives 132 intercalary iv Chapter 15. Transcendence 145 Chapter 16. Ethic and Engagement 151 Chapter 17. Where Their Spirit Lives On 156 the shack and the lab 161 Notes 163 Index 189 This page intentionally left blank ...