Quivira Coalition event celebrates Aldo Leopold

The Quivira Coalition will celebrate the centennial of conservationist Aldo Leopold at its eighth annual conference this week in Albuquerque. Leopold, whose arrived in the Southwest 100 years ago as a ranger with the fledgling U.S. Forest Service, called for a land ethic that today is called a “new agrarianism.” It focuses on an intermixing of ranchers, farmers, conservationists, scientists and others to create an economy that works in harmony with nature. pre-conference symposium starts Nov. 4 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Albuquerque and features sessions on water and range management. There will also be readings that evening by authors Gary Nabhan, Bill DeBuys and Linda Hasselstrom and others of their favorite passages by Leopold. Thursday sessions focus on land health, conservation and sustainable agriculture. Friday will feature sessions on restoration, beauty and the land ethic. Jeff Eisenberg of the Public Lands Council and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association will be a featured speaker. The two organizations are part of a new coalition to enhance ranching practices that consider important conservation issues in the West called the Coalition for Conservation through Ranching...read more