Thinking Like a Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude Toward Deer, Wolves and Forests (association copy)

Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. An association copy, inscribed on the title page: "For Walter Scott, With deepest thanks for all your help. Susan Flader." With his bookplate on the pastedown and his ownership signature on the first blank. Walter E. Scott of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is thanked in the acknowledgments for "greatly facilitating" her research. Scott was an important Wisconsin environmentalist and is a member of the state's Conservation Hall of Fame (Wisconsin seems to have a particularly illustrious one); he and Leopold were colleagues and examples of their correspondence can be found online. Scott was also a serious collector of natural resource-related books.

Susan Flader is professor emerita of American western and environmental history at the University of Missouri-Columbia (which published this volume). She is now on the board of the Aldo Leopold Foundation (see her bio). This book Thinking Like a Mountain was the first critical study of Aldo Leopold and his importance to the environmental movement; see the description from the University of Wisconsin Press which as reprinted it.

Ochre cloth with the illustration of a wolf on a deer kill; dark olive endpapers. A fine copy in a very good jacket on account of some little punctures clustered near the top of the front panel, otherwise near fine.  A wonderful association, and also a really handsome book
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