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An ecological history of property and a cultural history of rural ecosystems in one of Wisconsin's most famous regions, the Kickapoo Valley. This environmental biography of a landscape and its people traces the historical development of modern American property debates within diverse rural landscapes and cultures.

Presents the struggle of Trempealeau, Wisconsin, to determine whether platform mounds atop Trempealeau Mountain constitute authentic Indian mounds. This work is a portrait of American culture clash and a narrative grounded in people's perceptions of what the platform mounds mean.

Explores the history of the park land, from its importance to Native Americans and early European settlers through the 20th century. This work relates the role of conservationists and progressives in establishing the state park, its popularity for tourism and recreation, and efforts to protect the park's resources from a variety of threats.

The St Croix River is a federally protected National Scenic Riverway. This is a biography of the river over the course of more than 300 years. It tracks the river's social and environmental transformation as newcomers changed the river basin and, in turn, were changed by it. It offers lessons about the future management of beautiful wild waters.

In 1935, in the midst of relentless drought, Aldo Leopold purchased an abandoned farm along the Wisconsin River near Baraboo, Wisconsin. An old chicken coop, later to become famous as the Leopold "Shack," was the property''s only intact structure. The Leopold family embraced this spent farm as a new kind of laboratory-a place to experiment on restoring health to an ailing piece of land. Here, Leopold found inspiration for writing A Sand County Almanac, his influential book of essays on conservation and ethics.Living a Land Ethic chronicles the formation of the 1,600-acre reserve surrounding the Shack. When the Leopold Memorial Reserve was founded in 1967, five neighboring families signed an innovative agreement to jointly care for their properties in ways that honored Aldo Leopold''s legacy. In the ensuing years, the Reserve''s Coleman and Leopold families formed the Sand County Foundation and the Aldo Leopold Foundation. These organizations have been the primary stewards of the Reserve, carrying on a tradition of ecological restoration and cooperative conservation. Author Stephen A. Laubach draws from the archives of both foundations, including articles of incorporation, correspondence, photos, managers'' notes, and interviews to share with readers the Reserve''s untold history and its important place in the American conservation movement.

Captures the public achievement and private pain of a Wisconsin woman and her family. Helen's home influences, Presbyterian background, education and talents impelled her to lead. This book, based on a family's history, speaks about the way we were and are, a stridently materialistic nation with a deep and persistent spiritual component.

Between AD 700 and 1100 Native Americans built more effigy mounds in Wisconsin than anywhere else in North America, with an estimated 1,300 mounds at the center of effigy-building culture in and around Madison, Wisconsin. This book explores the cultural, historical, and ceremonial meanings of the mounds.