First published in 1990, this volume collects twenty-six of Aldo Leopold's little-known essays and articles published between 1915 and 1948. Hitherto unavailable to the general public, these pieces show that Leopold was not born an ecologist. On a daily basis, the young forester grappled with concrete ecological problems and groped for practical solutions.

Gathers the pre-"Sand Country Almanac writings of Aldo Leopold, showing that he was not born an ecologist, but evolved over time through experimentation and thought.