Meeting Highlights: Spencer, Leopold documentary, visitor
Who's the visitor? This barred owl has taken a watchful stance in the Eastern hemlocks outside the Leopold Center's second-story offices in Curtiss Hall. ISU biologists say this resident's loud hoots are associated with courtship and nesting. Aldo Leopold appreciated hawks and owls as part of "the land mechanism." Photo by Bob Elbert, Iowa State University
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"I hate to admit that it took me 40 years to learn this: the simple idea that things go better when you don't fight nature."– Vic Madsen, on accepting the Spencer Award for Sustainable Agriculture. Read more about this presentation
New documentary
Thanks to Leopold Center support, Iowa audiences were treated to a newly released 73-minute film about the life and legacy of Aldo Leopold. The first-ever Leopold documentary premiered in March to sold-out crowds in Wisconsin and New Mexico. More than 150 people filled an Ames Reads Leopold event at the Ames Public Library auditorium on March 6. It was shown the following day to more than 250 people at the Iowa Water Conference in Ames, accompanied by remarks from Leopold biographer and film narrator Curt Meine. More at http://greenfiremovie.org
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