Aldo Leopold: Conservationist and Hunter
Abstract This little-quoted entry from Aldo Leopold’s Round River journals (Leopold 195 3, 24-25) may shock the average new-millennium conservationist. By today’s standards, the passage is not exactly environmentally correct, and not just because Leopold referred to the majestic peregrine falcon as...
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Oxford University PressNew York, NY
2002
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195149432.003.0012 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/53087811/isbn-9780195149432-book-part-12.pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract This little-quoted entry from Aldo Leopold’s Round River journals (Leopold 195 3, 24-25) may shock the average new-millennium conservationist. By today’s standards, the passage is not exactly environmentally correct, and not just because Leopold referred to the majestic peregrine falcon as a “duckhawk:’ Of course, all but the extreme purist will overlook the acts described here and committed in 1922 that today would be considered major transgressions. |
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