A look back at the beginning of modern wildlife conservation: Leopold’s “Thinking Like a Mountain”

My latest "Out of Bounds" column in a continuing series on outdoorsy things to do while self isolating is a reflection on Aldo Leopold’s essay, “Thinking Like a Mountain,” from the classic “Sand County Almanac.” The image is one of my favorite pieces of wall art, a poster commemorating the Mexican gray wolf reintroduction in the White Mountains of Arizona in 1998. The iconic photo was taken by the great AZ Game and Fish photog, George Andrejko. It was a Mexican gray wolf Leopold shot, then watching “fierce green fire dying in her eyes,” that inspired his essay and the conservation movement he led and inspired.