Guest Post by Kate Jakubowski Changing the Landscape: Aldo Leopold’s Conservation Legacy Combing through the archives of Aldo Leopold is no small feat. Located at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Aldo Leopold archives contain 83 boxes of material which are divided into twelve different series. It will take you more than a day to learn about the life of Leopold—probably months or years, if you have the time—but this is appropriate for a man who devoted his life to his love of conservation. Known as the Father of Wildlife Management, [1] the Father of Modern Conservation, and father of five children, all of whom followed in his footsteps to become noted scientists of their own, Aldo Leopold was not just an important figure in the 20 th century conservation movement but a pioneering one. Leopold’s book, A Sand County Almanac , was a landmark in environmentalism where he developed his land ethic philosophy. He also created a new field of study within environmentalism, ...
Guest Post by Kate Jakubowski In The Geography of Genius , author Eric Weiner explains that geniuses aren’t born—they’re made by the worlds they grew up in. Creativity is influenced by culture, and that is why different clusters of gifted people have emerged over time throughout different places in the world. [1] That is why philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle thrived in Ancient Greece and why much of the Western musical canon comes from Vienna, when Mozart, Beethoven, and Hadyn were active composers in the late 18 th and early 19 th centuries. But one cluster Weiner omits is a group of gifted dancers that emerged in early-to-mid 20 th century America— two groups of dancers, in fact. The Five Moons Ballerinas were a quintet of female dancers of Indigenous heritage, while two noted Russian choreographers, George Balanchine and Bronislava Nijinska, immigrated to the United States and influenced the next generation of aspiring ballerinas. At the nexus of these two groups is ...