Book Aldo Leopold’s Shack, Nina’s Story

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Recounts Aldo Leopold’s family restoring a farm, blending conservation, memories, and legacy. In Aldo Leopold’s Shack: Nina’s Story , Nancy Nye Hunt tells the remarkable tale of the famous Leopold family’s efforts to restore a worn-out farm along the lower Wisconsin River near Baraboo in the 1930s during the Great Depression and into the 1940s. Aldo Leopold, the world-renowned ecologist and conservationist–along with Estella, his wife, and their five children and two dogs, Gus and Flick–spent most weekends and vacations living and working at their Sand County farm that they called the Shack, now a National Historic Landmark that is also listed on both the National and Wisconsin Registers of Historic Places. Their story is told through the eyes of Nina, the eldest daughter.  Softcover, 9″ x 10″, 127 pgs.