"My had developed a craving to have his own land to experiment with a new idea: '. We needed, he said, to find out what the original had been like in our area and what we could do to bring it back. That, and his desire to have a special place to hunt, led to his purchase in the mid-1930s of an abandoned farm along the , in the —"." He specifically chose the Shack land because of its isolation and because this farm was a land of impoverished soil that had become an agricultural failure. In his view this was sick land that needed restoration; it needed to see again the native species that once must have grown here. It was one instance of his larger vision of the countrywide importance of land health and fostering the community of life."
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Estella Leopold
(January 8, 1927 – February 25, 2024) was an American paleobotanist, environmentalist, and professor of botany and forest sciences. Elected in 1974 a Member of the U.S. , she was awarded in 1993 the , in 2010 the , and in 2013 the .
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