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Mar. 26:
Brown Bag: Leopold in a Digital Age |
Apr. 10:
Woodland School: Wetland Management |
May 3 and 20:
Ties To The Land |
May 8:
Woodland School: Birding the IBA |
The Woodland School |
In the coming year, we are offering an array of Woodland School classes to advance your land stewardship practice, from the classics—chainsaw safety, prescribed fire—to new opportunities like birding the Leopold Memorial Reserve with experts. We hope you'll let one pique your curiosity and join us in the field! |
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Visiting the Leopold Center |
The Leopold Center is closed for the season. Visits from Nov.-Apr. are by appointment only. |
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Aldo Leopold Weekend Reaches New Audiences Nationwide
 This year's Aldo Leopold Weekend included 20 events across Wisconsin, three in Iowa, one in South Dakota, and one in Maryland. Thank you to all our dedicated Leopold Weekend planners and their communities! Activities ranged from banquets, an archery tournament, lectures, nature hikes, Leopold bench building workshops (pictured here at Hunt Hill Nature Center in Sarona, Wisconsin), to an essay and poetry contest, and a community forum on food, not to mention, traditional readings of A Sand County Almanac. Thanks again to The Boldt Company for their continued support of this event!
On the air:
Leopold Weekend events were featured on two radio stories in Wisconsin. Listen online: Wisconsin Public Radio or Milwaukee Public Radio.
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Brown Bag Seminar: Aldo Leopold’s Legacy in the Digital Age
 This Friday, March 26, join us for an introduction to an effort that is allowing Leopold’s vision and values to be introduced to audiences all over the world! The program starts at noon with a quick overview of the collaboration between the Aldo Leopold Foundation and the UW Archives resulting in the digitization of the Leopold archives. Then learn from Jess Fanaselle and Taylor Norman, undergraduate students at Augsburg College, that have developed online versions of A Sand County Almanac and are tracking how their fellow students engage the various versions and the digital archives. Their professor, Colin Irvine, will lead discussion about helping us think critically about the potential to use new technologies to get students and adults to think about the insights to be learned from Leopold’s life and writing. Bring a bag lunch along and join us from 12pm-1pm for the presentation followed by questions and discussion. This program is free and open to the public.
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Last Chance to Submit a Proposal for the LEP Conference
 The Leopold Education Project National Conference will be held at the Leopold Center in Baraboo in June. If you are a formal or non-formal environmental educator, you may want to present to other educators in one of the sessions. Our deadline for proposals is April 1st, so send us yours today! Presenters will receive a $50 discount on conference registration. Registration for the conference is now open so if you just want to come and listen, register now to get the early-bird discount! |
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 New My Healthy Woods Handbook for Minnesota
Our third My Healthy Woods handbook is hot off the presses! This time, we take a look at successful land management strategies and tactics for the forests and prairies of southeastern Minnesota. We will be mailing the handbooks to 5,000 private landowners in the region, plus distributing them through partner organizations. The handbooks are part of a collaborative project between ALF and the American Forest Foundation to engage new landowners across the country in sustainable forest management. You can look at sample pages (PDF) from the new Minnesota handbook or order one online.
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More Resources for Landowners
 In addition to the My Healthy Woods handbook series, the Aldo Leopold Foundation offers several other new ways for landowners to learn more about their land. This spring, the foundation will host two sessions of a workshop called Ties to the Land at the Leopold Center in Baraboo on May 3 and May 20. The workshop focuses on ways to maintain family ties to the land from generation to generation and builds awareness of key challenges facing family forest ownership, helping to motivate families to address those challenges. Alanna Koshollek, ALF's stewardship coordinator, will help to facilitate the workshops. If you wish to attend, you can download a registration form from our website. Additionally, the Woodland School program offers two exciting classes for landowners this spring learn about wetland management on April 10 or come out and go birding on the the Leopold-Pine Island Important Bird Area on May 8. After that, Woodland School classes will start up again in the fall, so look for the new schedule coming soon! Finally, the foundation has helped to produce a new publication to help you go through the steps of hiring in contractor to do work on your land. Download here.
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Notes from the Field
 Since they began as Land Stewardship Interns nearly two months ago, Carson Main and Fletcher Clark have been battling buckthorn with the rest of the stewardship crew (2009 Buckthorn Report is coming soon, read the 2008 report here). Common buckthorn has become a threat to woodland health across much of the northeastern United States. It is an invasive tree from Eurasia that grows in dense thickets in forests, shading out native vegetation. We've been working to control buckthorn on the Leopold Memorial Reserve for many years and are beginning to see some progress. Carson and Fletcher star in our first-ever low-budget land stewardship video, describing ALF's buckthorn control program. Watch it on YouTube and tell us what you think!
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Check out the Bookstore!
 Whether you're looking for the perfect gift for a fellow fan of the foundation or want to indulge in something for yourself, visit our bookstore for an array of books and gift items. Check out our newest featured item, a set of notecards featuring illustrations from A Sand County Almanac printed on paper made from pine trees the Leopold family planted. You can also help us clean out our inventory by picking up one of our sale items, like a 2010 Phenology Calendar or a copy of the lovely photographic book, Prairie Time.
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