Leopold Letter Summer 2012
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Let’s get acquainted. In this issue, Mark Rasmussen writes his first column as new director of the Leopold Center, and offers a retrospective of his farm experience and what has shaped his views on sustainability. You’ll also learn about Iowa’s potential to provide sustainable biofuel and the role of public gardens in creating community. Distinguished Fellow Fred Kirschenmann talks about intimacy and being close to the land as prerequisites for good land management.
Other features: The Leopold Center issues its annual RFP for project ideas, the Local Food and Farm Initiative gets funding for its second year, a new brochure outlining a landowners’ duty of stewardship and the Iowa-Ukraine connection with hoops. Other articles recount a successful screening for Symphony of the Soil, ISU students learning the Leopold land ethic, new resources, research results and an important anniversary at ISU.
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