Dutchess Land Conservancy
Wednesday, April 1, 6:00 PM EST Online Event
Join Curt Meine, Senior Fellow with the Aldo Leopold Foundation as he presents on the life and works of early conservationist Aldo Leopold.
Conservation—as an idea, a movement, and a set of stewardship practices—has evolved continually over its history. Aldo Leopold played a vital role in that evolution in the first half of the 20th century as he worked to define emerging concepts of land health and land ethics. Curt Meine will trace the trail that Leopold followed and how his ideas continue to contribute to conservation’s evolution.
Curt Meine is a conservation biologist, environmental historian, and writer based in Sauk County, Wisconsin. He serves as Senior Fellow with the Aldo Leopold Foundation (Baraboo, WI) and the Center for Humans and Nature (Libertyville, IL); as Research Associate with the International Crane Foundation (Baraboo, WI); and as Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For more than three decades he has worked with a wide array of organizations at the intersection of conservation, agriculture, water, climate change, environmental justice, and community resilience. Meine has authored and edited several books, including the award-winning biography Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work (1988/2010). His most recent book is We Can Do Better: Collected Writings on Land, Conservation, and Public Policy by Paul W. Johnson (2025). He served as on-screen guide in the Emmy Award-winning documentary film Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time (2011). In his home landscape, he is a founding member of the Sauk Prairie Conservation Alliance.
The DLC's Earth Matters webinar series is sponsored by LaBella Associates, Mutual of America, and Structure Works Construction.
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