A Wilderness Area here in New Mexico is named for Aldo Leopold. Who was he?
Aldo Leopold was an internationally respected conservationist, scientist who helped promote wilderness, and built ecological foundations for tow 20th century career professions—forestry and wildlife ecology. He is best known as the author of A Sand County Almanac (1949), a volume of nature sketches and philosophical essays recognized as one of the enduring expressions of an ecological attitude toward people and the land. Leopold worked in the southwest (New Mexico and Arizona) as a forester until he was transferred in 1924 to the Forest Products Lab in Madison, Wisconsin. In 1933 Leopold worked as a Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison until his death in 1948. The southernmost part of New Mexico is known as the “Bootheel of New Mexico.” Why do people call it that? The “Bootheel” of New Mexico is the lower southwestern portion of the state that juts down into Mexico. It is a sparsely populated region of the state and home to many magnificent creatures, including the venerab
