Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Aldo Leopold, known as the Father of Wildlife Ecology and the US Wilderness System, is one of the most influential thinkers in North American conservation history. Living 61 years, from 1887 to 1948, Leopold’s life and career in conservation spanned the initial emergence of the modern conservation movement.

Read more about this iconic figure of conservation here: savagearms.com/blog/post/who-was-aldo-leopold