Name: "Aldo Leopold Was for the Birds!": In-Person Badger Talk in Baraboo, WI
Start: 2026-05-15T10:00:00-05:00
Location: 1414 Jefferson St, Baraboo, WI 53913-1503, United States

"Aldo Leopold Was for the Birds!": In-Person Badger Talk in Baraboo, WI

This is a free, in-person talk hosted on May 15, 2026 at 10:00 AM CST by Complete Care at Jefferson Meadows in Baraboo, WI. No registration necessary for this event. This event will not be held virtually.
Although widely recognized for his book, A Sand County Almanac, and for his contributions to modern conservation, Aldo Leopold was also a life-long birder. A well-worn pair of birding binoculars was often around his neck whenever he was in the field. Leopold not only enjoyed bird watching, he also wrote some of his most poignant essays about birds and their conservation. He faithfully recorded many of his bird observations, providing important historical records that allow us to understand how birds are responding to such environmental factors as climate change. Stan Temple will review Leopold’s love of birds and birding and explain why his writings are so important for bird conservation efforts today.
Stanley (Stan) Temple is the Beers-Bascom Professor Emeritus in Conservation in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology at UW–Madison. For 32 years he held the academic position once occupied by Aldo Leopold. He is currently a Senior Fellow with the Aldo Leopold Foundation. He and his students have helped save some of world’s most endangered species and the habitats on which they depend. He has received major conservation awards from the Society for Conservation Biology, The Wildlife Society, and the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology. Among other recognitions of his achievements, he is a Fellow of the American Ornithological Society, Explorers Club, Wildlife Conservation Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. He has been President of the Society for Conservation Biology and Chairman of the Board of The Nature Conservancy in Wisconsin. He was recently inducted into the Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame.