Rand Aldo Leopold

Aldo Leopold was a professor at the University of Wisconsin, celebrated author of A Sand County Almanac, and a pioneering American proponent of wildlife management and conservation. In 1909, early in his career, while still a student at Yale Forestry School, he visited a lumber camp near Colmesneil, Texas, in Tyler County. There he gained foundational experience in surveying, mapping, timber valuation and forest planning.