A Sand County Almanac

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A Sand County Almanac is a 1949 non-fiction book by American ecologist, forester, and environmentalist Aldo Leopold. Describing the land around the author's home in Sauk County, Wisconsin, the collection of essays advocate Leopold's idea of a land ethic, or a responsible relationship existing between people and the land they inhabit. Edited and published by his son, Luna, a year after Leopold's death from a heart attack, the book is considered a landmark in the American conservation movement. The book has had over two million copies printed and has been translated into nine languages. It has informed and changed the environmental movement and stimulated a widespread interest in ecology as a science. In the original publishing, the book begins with a set of essays under the heading Sand County Almanac, which is divided into twelve segments, one for each month. These essays mostly follow the changes in the ecology on Leopold's farm near Baraboo, Wisconsin.