I am reading Aldo Leopold at the moment, "A Sand County Almanac". I suspect I am the last "pig to the trough" on this book as it has been out there for many years and revered as something quite special.

Well, it is. I am curious if any of you African hunters have read this book and felt an applications/vibrations about Leopold's observations in Wisconsin to your trundles and musings while getting early tea or a late evening sundowner?

Get philosophical on me here, it is ok....

Pretty much standard reading requirement for fish and wildlife undergraduate programs. The Good Oak reflection is one of the more poignant moments for me.

Read it many years ago and it is still on my bookshelf.
Sometimes the evening reflection is enhanced by a good whiskey and cigar.

Read it in the early1960s. Probably time to read it again.
He left a lot of tracks around our cabin along Arizona's border with New Mexico.

Bill Quimby

I am about 2/3's the way through this soul wrenching book. I am pretty upset with myself over how little I really know about what is going on around me. In truth, I know next to nothing. Scary.

This book was written with a US or European model in mind. I am mentally trying to plant Africa into this book. The outcome is not clean and clear.

I urge others to read this and share their thoughts.

Have not read it
Will do boys

Ross;

I checked online and can get the audio version (for my husband). Can't wait to receive it! Thanks for recommendation!

Best regards, D. Nelson

Have it and read it several years ago. Need to read it again before I wax poetic. As stated above, whiskey and a cigar helps.

Seems like I need to read this book.

It should be a compulsory read for anyone considering a walk in the woods.

As some one said, this was required reading for all us student wildlife biologists in the early 70s. Aldo Leopold was the father of modern game management and a real poet to boot. He certainly had profound impact on me. Every time I hear a field sparrow singing in the pre-dawn, I think of him sitting in the Wisconsin woods with a cup of coffee adding to his bird list for the day. I also was thrilled to find Silphium, a native tall grass prairie species, still growing in the little natural grassland just south of the Sam Noble Natural History Museum in Norman. I know he would have been pleased that some of them still survive.