알도레오폴드 그는 누구인가?

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알도 레오폴드(Aldo Leopold) (1887-1948)

알도 레오폴드는 1887년 아이오와주 버링턴에서 4형제중 장남으로 태어났습니다.

그는 1909년 예일대학교에서 임학 학위(Master of Forestry)를 받은 후 미국 삼림청(U.S.Forest Service)에서

1924년 위스컨신, 매디슨의 임업연구소로 전근갈 때까지 19년간 미국남서부(뉴멕시코와 애리조나)에서 근무합니다.

1928년 그는 임업연구소를 그만 두고 주로 미국의 야생동물수렵에 대한 통계조사와 관련된 일을 시작합니다.

1933년 위스컨신대학의 농업경제학부에서 수렵경영(game management)학 교수로 임명되어 1948년 사망할때까지 교편을 잡습니다.

알도 레오폴드는 인류와 토지에 대한 생태학적 시각을 잘 묘사한 "모래군(郡)의 열두달, 그리고 이곳저곳의 스케치(A Sand County Alamanac and Sketches Here and There)"의 저자로서 더 많이 알려져있습니다.

토지윤리의 개념은 레오폴드의 환경에 대한 인식으로부터 비롯되었고, 그는 이러한 인식을 심화시키고 체계화시키는 데 일생을 바쳤습니다.

그는 세계적으로 존경받는 과학자 중 하나이며, 임업과 야생동물의 생태계 보존을 위한 정책과 환경단체를

조직하는 계기를 마련한 자연보호론자로 추앙받고 있습니다.

(원문: www.aldoleopold.org)

아래는 The Aldo Leopold Foundation에 수록되어있는 알도 레오폴드의 연대기입니다.

A Brief Chronology

1887: Aldo Leopold, born in Burlington, Iowa on January 11, eldest of four children of Carl and Clara Leopold. Educated in Burlington public schools until 1903.

1904: Attends Lawernceville School in New Jersey from January, 1904, to May,

1905: to prepare for college.

1905: Attends Sheffield Scientific School at Yale (class of 1908).

1906: Begins coursework at Yale Forest School (Master of Forestry, 1909).

1909: Joins U.S. Forest Service (established 1905). First field assignment as assistant on Apache National Forest in southeastern Arizona.

1911: Transferred to Carson National Forest in northern New Mexico as deputy supervisor, then supervisor. Founds and edits Carson Pine Cone, a newsletter.

1912: Marries Estella Bergere of Santa Fe on October 9. Five children: Starker,

1913; Luna, 1915; Nina, 1917; Carl, 1919; Estella, 1927.

1914: Assigned to U.S. Forest Service district headquarters in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the office of grazing. In 1915 placed in charged of new work on recreation, game, fish, and publicity.

1918: After U.S. entry into World War I alters Forest Service priorities, leaves the service in January to accept a full-time position as secretary of the Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce.

1919: Rejoins Forest Service in August as assistant district forester in charge of operations, with responsibility for business organization, personnel finance, roads and trails, and fire control for the twenty million acres of national forests in the Southwest.

1922: Submits formal proposal for administration of Gila National Forest as a wilderness area (administratively designated by Forest Service on June 3, 1924).

1923: Completes Watershed Handbook (mimeographed) for district, reflecting observations on numerous inspection tours of southwestern forests.

1924: Accepts transfer to U.S. Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin as assistant (later associate) director.

1928: Leaves Forest Service Products Laboratory and Forest Service to conduct game surveys of Midwestern states, funded by the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute. Prepares survey reports for nine states and publishes book-length summary (1931).

1930: As chairman of the Game Policy Institute of the American Game Conference, leads in formulating an American Game Policy, adopted in December.

1933: In July, accepts appointment to a new chair of game management in the Department of Agriculture Economics at the University of Wisconsin.

1935: In January, assists in founding the Wilderness Society. In April, acquires the Wisconsin River farm ("the Shack") that would be the setting for the almanac sketches. In Autumn, studies forestry and wildlife management in Germany on a Carl Schurz fellowship.

1936: Assists in establishing a society of wildlife specialists, by 1937 renamed the Wildlife Society. In September, makes first if two pack trips along the Rio Gavilan in Chihuahua, Mexico.

1939: Becomes chairman of a new Department of Wildlife Management at the University of Wisconsin.

1941: Develops initial plans for a volume of ecological essays.

1943: Appointed by governor to a six-year term of the Wisconsin Conservation Commission, a tenure dominated by debates over deer policy.

1947: In December, submits revised book manuscript titled "Great Possessions" to Oxford university Press which notifies him of acceptance on April 14, 1948.

1948: Stricken by heart attack and dies on April 21 while helping to fight a grass fire on a neighbor's farm at the shack. Burial in Burlington, Iowa.

1949: "Great Possessions" final editing overseen by Luna B. Leopold and published as A Sand County Almanac.

A things is right when it tends to preserve
the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community
- Aldo Leopold -