Sand County Almanac

 

As I said, the county forester held another meeting for Aldo Leopold Week at the library this week.  I'd looked for my copy of A Sand County Almanac but couldn't find it.  I asked the forester for one of the copies that he gives away at his meetings - even if I couldn't attend since I had to man the front desk.  Not a problem.  Tonight I put out the February library stats, finished up the notice of new books at the library in March, check up on some people who had asked for library cards but never picked them up, and pull books requested by other libraries.  It was still easy to listen in on the meeting at the other side of the library.  Toward the end the forester suggested reading a 'controversial' section of the book.  I was wondering what that would be until he reached the phrase 'a fierce green fire dying in [the wolf's] eyes."    After finishing that section the group talked about conservation and the forester said we have to have controls on the land and the animals on it.  That's when it hit me across the face of how much of a tree-hugger I actually am.  The idea that people should or even could control nature seemed arrogant and the height of idiocy.  We certainly haven't done very well so far - ask the passenger pigeon and buffalo.  The Russian armies invading Ukraine had to circumvent around Chernobyl.  I'm sure you have your own examples.