-- Topic -- Tools -- Timeliness

1. Managing Water. Harvesting Results. -- Topic -- Tools -- Timeliness

2. Managing Water. Harvesting Results. “. . ., and after one short week of freshet X lay again in his ancient prison, the sea. . . . An oxteam turned the prairie sod, and Y began a succession of dizzy annual trips. . . . . . On first reaching the pool, Y made several trips through water plants, fish, and waterfowl. But engineers build sewers as well as dams, and down them comes the loot of all the far hills and the sea.” - Aldo Leopold Odyssey, A Sand County Almanac Topic– Atom X from Aldo Leopold into the 21st Century

3. Managing Water. Harvesting Results. “. . . but we do not keep filth out of our creeks and rivers. . . . restored by the creative use of the same tools which have heretofore destroyed it—axe, plow, cow, fire, and gun. . . . to show that farm, forest, and wild life products can be grown on it, to the mutual advantage of the landowner and the public.” - Aldo Leopold Preface and Chapter XVIII, Game Management Tools– Atom X from Aldo Leopold into the 21st Century

4. Managing Water. Harvesting Results. 6 October 2011, Volume 478, Nature

5. Managing Water. Harvesting Results.

6. Managing Water. Harvesting Results. “. . . We are remodeling the Alhambra with a steamshovel, and we are proud of our yardage. We shall hardly relinquish the shovel, which after all has many good points, but we are in need of gentler and more objective criteria for its successful use.” - Aldo Leopold The Outlook, A Sand County Almanac, last two sentences Timeliness– Atom X from Aldo Leopold into the 21st Century

7. Sand County Foundation Brent M. Haglund bhaglund@sandcounty.net 608/663.4605 http://www.sandcounty.net