TY - JOUR T1 - Aldo Leopold: Reflections of a daughter JF - Journal of Soil and Water Conservation SP - 404 LP - 405 VL - 46 IS - 6 AU - Nina Leopold Bradley Y1 - 1991/11/01 UR - http://www.jswconline.org/content/46/6/404.abstract N2 - IN an undated paper, “Wherefore Wildlife Ecology,” my father almost anticipated the theme of SWCS's 46th annual meeting, “Living With The Land.” He wrote, “There are two things that interest me: the relation of people to each other, and the relation of people to land.” As a place to put such ideas to work, my father in 1935 bought a “sand hrm” along the Wisconsin River, “first worn out and then abandoned by our bigger-and-better society.” This land had been “lived on,” and “destroyed” by the former owner. In the essay “Prairie Birthday,” father wrote, “My own farm was selected for its lack of goodness and its lack of highway, in fact my whole neighborhood lies in the backwash of the River Progress.…” If you were selecting a piece of land to purchase, would this be what you were looking for? Lessons from the land The sand farm was purchased for $8.00 an acre. Over the next 13 years, our family, friends, and neighbors worked “with shovel and axe” to try to bring life back to the depleted acres of riverbottom. The poor farm became a place where these two interests found … ER -