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At this point with the Forest Service, his mission was to focus on “game protection”. On the evening of October 13, 1915, Leopold listened to a fiery lecture by the renowned conservationist William T. Hornaday. His book, Our Vanishing Wild Life, had greatly impressed Leopold. After hearing the great orator, who was said to have had a biblical voice and a countenance to match his zeal, Leopold found his own convictions and thinking about game protection inflamed; supported by the Forest Service, he started on a campaign trail to further the cause.
In January 1916, Leopold was sent out on a speaking tour of New Mexico. His goal was to help local sportsmen build cooperative associations to protect wildlife on the national forests. He was very successful in his mission. He found very strong support with the local hunters. This was the result of their reaction to an unusual situation found in New Mexico hunting grounds: a European barony style where the large landowners had most of New Mexico’s game locked up for their own personal use. The evolution of the reasons for this will be discussed in the next installment of “Aldo Leopold: His Legacy”, as will his final years in the Southwest.
***NOTE: The bulk of the data this article is based on, came from Curt Meine’s book: Aldo Leopold – His Life and Work. Data from Louis S. Warren’s book: The Hunter’s Game was also referenced.
Heating Costs To Be Reduced
The Climate Explorer (a combined effort of NOAA, NASA, USGS, and others) has been published at this link. It allows the user to access a number of projections using differing base assumptions.
In the graph below, the number of days with temperatures over 100 degrees is projected for San Lorenzo. With higher emissions, it is projected that by 2090 more than a third of all days will have temperatures over 100 degrees Fahrenheit in San Lorenzo on the west side of the Range.
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