Leopold laments the loss of wildness in this companion-piece to "Thinking Like a Mountain." He was among those who worked to tame the frontier. As a forester he mapped it, measured its weight in gold, timbered it, grazed it, and sent it downstream, but hindsight tells him the wilderness would have been more valuable left alone.
Read "Escudilla" in A Sand County Almanac
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