Aldo Leopold shack gets landmark status

The Green Bay Press-Gazette reports:

The humble shack that became the centerpiece of conservationist Aldo Leopold's "A Sand County Almanac" has been granted National Historic Landmark status. The converted chicken coop and the farm on which it stands received the designation from outgoing Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne before he left office in December. Leopold died in 1948 at the age of 61, just before "A Sand County Almanac" was published. The collection of essays detailed his observations of nature through changing seasons and also called for a new land ethic to guide humans in the way they deal with the natural world. The shack is maintained in his memory by the Aldo Leopold Foundation, founded by his children in 1982 to carry on his legacy...