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Aldo Leopold and Environmental Citizenship
September 12 @ 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Aldo Leopold is known best as a forester, wildlife ecologist, and author of A Sand County Almanac who thought deeply about a land ethic. But have you ever considered of him as one who cared about citizenship?
Susan Flader, who wrote the first biography of Aldo Leopold, will explore what citizenship meant to him at various stages in his life and career. She hopes to leave you thinking in a new way about environmental citizenship—and even action—at a time when it is so sorely needed in our country and the world.
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Susan Flader is professor emerita of American western and environmental history at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She has written extensively about Aldo Leopold and served as board chair of the Leopold Foundation. In addition to numerous articles, she has authored or edited ten books, among them Thinking Like a Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude; The Great Lakes Forest; The River of the Mother of God and Other Essays by Aldo Leopold; Towards Sustainability for Missouri Forests; and Missouri State Parks and Historic Sites. She is a founder and past president of the American Society for Environmental History and the Missouri Parks Association. She has lectured in nearly every state and on five continents, served on many professional and environmental boards and committees, and won numerous national and state awards for publications and conservation.
