The land was in ruins. To most buyers, even eight dollars an acre was too high a price for the worn-out Wisconsin farm with its rickety old chicken shack. Once covered in forest, it had been logged, burned, and overgrazed. But in 1935, Aldo Leopold bought the barren scrap of earth. And he cultivated a relationship with it that would ultimately earn him a place alongside Henry David Thoreau in history. Who was this man? And how did he revolutionize our thinking about the natural world?
Thanks to John Jennings, host of KRTS's Central Standards Time, for voicing the part of Aldo Leopold in this episode.