Aldo Leopold

Leopold was born in Burlington Iowa, where he spent his early childhood. He was often outdoors, playing in the woods and cataloging animals. At sixteen he moved to New Jersey to attend a college preparatory school, and then attended the Sheffield School (a college associated with Yale University), and the recently founded Yale School of Forestry, where he received a graduate degree. Leopold spent his twenties working for the United States Forest Service in New Mexico and Arizona. Leopold eventually went on to accept a professorship at the University of Wisconsin, where he lived, taught, and wrote for the rest of his life.