Aldo Leopold Legacy Center
Legacy Center Earns National Accolades
10.3.2007
The Legacy Center is featured in ArchitectureWeek, the leading online magazine for design and construction.
Excerpt: Located on land that Aldo Leopold loved, deep in the mid-Wisconsin countryside at Baraboo, not far from the Wisconsin Dells, the graceful buildings of the new Aldo Leopold Legacy Center house the guardians of his legacy with a warm and gentle, yet astringent, almost Shakeresque simplicity of beautiful form and construction...
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9.13.2007
The Legacy Center makes the front page of USA Today's Travel section:
Wisconsin's sights are set on Earth-friendly tourism
By Laura Bly, USA TODAY
BARABOO, Wis. — One of the spiritual risks of not owning a farm, wrote the late Wisconsin conservationist Aldo Leopold in his 1949 environmental classic A Sand County Almanac, "is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery."
Tour guide Phyllis McKenzie pauses to read Leopold's words in a sun-dappled grove of oak and pine trees near southern Wisconsin's new Aldo Leopold Legacy Center. Fashioned from local wood and stone according to stringent U.S. Green Building Council standards, the center is a short stroll from the converted chicken shack, now a national landmark, where Leopold found his inspiration along the shores of the Wisconsin River.
And in an era in which "eat local" is becoming an epicurean mantra, Leopold's musings about the need for a human connection to the natural world are taking on a renewed significance — particularly in his home state. ... click for whole article.
5.1.2007
The Legacy Center is featured in Eco-Structure magazine. Click here to view PDF.
4.25.2007
The Capital Times coverage of the Legacy Center’s grand opening - click here to read article.
4.14.2007
The Capital Times coverage of the Legacy Center’s completion - click here to read article.