Table of Contents
Aldo Leopold: A Reader's Testimony Wendell Berry xi
Preface to the 2010 Edition xvii
Preface to the 1988 Edition xxxiii
Acknowledgments xxxv
Part I Midwest
1 Sources (1843-1887) 3
2 Prospect Hill (1887-1904) 12
Part II East
3 Lawrenceville (1904-1905) 33
4 New Haven (1905-1906) 51
5 Forest School (1906-1909) 62
Part III Southwest
6 Apache: The Breaks of the Blue (1909-1911) 87
7 Carson: A Delightful Turmoil (1911-1913) 106
8 On Top (1913-1915) 124
9 "To Promote the Protection and Enjoyment of Wild Things..." (1915-1919) 144
10 Chief of Operations (1919-1922) 175
11 Pioneers and Gullies (1923-1924) 211
Part IV Wisconsin
12 A Fish out of Water (1924-1928) 231
13 "Game Methods: The American Way" (1928-1932) 259
14 Consulting Forester (1932-1933) 291
15 The Professor (1933-1934) 308
16 The Value of Wilderness (1934-1935) 340
17 Toward a Biotic View of Land (1936-1939) 362
18 Digging Deeper (1939-1941) 397
19 Land Use and Democracy (1942-1945) 430
20 A Portent of a Different Future (1945-1947) 474
21 Finale (1947-1948) 506
Epilogue 521
Abbreviations Used in Notes and Bibliography 533
Notes 535
Bibliography 589
Index 621