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This is our quarterly 12-page newsletter. Below is a description of what you'll find in each issue. Click on issue date for links to newsletter articles, download a PDF by clicking on the newsletter image, or sign up to receive the Leopold Letter by email or in your mailbox.

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Leopold Letter Winter 2003

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  • Leopold Center launches five new policy projects
  • Ecology initiative sorts through project ideas
  • New ways to work with the Leopold Center
  • Director column: It’s time for another Country Life Commission
  • ‘Locally grown’ offers powerful marketing message
  • National summit supports publicly funded breeding research
  • Population changes signal new business landscape
  • Reflections on Iowa farmland in 2004
  • Ecologist Jules Pretty challenges traditional notions about agriculture
  • Can sustainability change the way we do business?
  • Guest column: Feed the world policy has failed
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Leopold Letter Fall 2003

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  • Center awards grants for new work
  • Director column: Getting beyond 'scratch and sniff'
  • Book focuses on Iowa's rural renewal
  • Lessons from Australian agriculture 
  • Governor Vilsack honors family, presents Spencer Award 
  • Successful chicken collective may offer hope to U.S. growers
  • Study examines social aspects of watershed planning
  • A look at Life in Iowa: Fostering the sense of place
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Leopold Letter Summer 2003

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  • Spencer Award goes to Iowa farm family
  • From the Field: David, Diane and Dresden Petty
  • A look at the Leopold Center and budget issues
  • Director column: An open letter to Iowans
  • Leopold Center issues first request for proposals since 2001
  • Leopold Center shares in ISU budget cuts
  • Grass-based dairies hold promise for southern Iowa producers
  • A tale of two local food projects
  • Checking the food odometer: How far does your food travel? 
  • Doing good by eating well: Capturing the 'taste of place'

 
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Leopold Letter Spring 2003

 

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  • Partnership receives $560,000 to continue Value Chain project
  • Hoop Group gets second federal grant to continue work
  • Leopold Center policy sessions draw a crowd 
  • Living in a world of wounds: Commentary by Nina Leopold Bradley 
  • A land ethic learned by example in the Leopold family
  • Corporate CEO to PFI farmers: 'Your product fits the bill'
  • Director column: Can we save 'agriculture of the middle'?
  • From the Field: Steve and Jean Moseley
  • Hope's Edge: A conversation with Frances Moore Lappé