Teaching and Learning Across Boundaries

August 12-15Baraboo, Wisconsin

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What is a Land Ethic?

(and how do we build one?)

In Your Words…

#LeopoldConference participants define a Land Ethic

Where do we Feel at

Home?(What heart places

inform our shared land ethic?)

#LeopoldConference participants share places that inform their land ethic

Anne SkalskiCharlottesville, Virginia

“My heart place is where wild things humble me and implode my feelings of awe.”

#LeopoldConference participants share places that inform

their land ethic

Carolyn WatkinsColumbus, Ohio

“Clintonville ravines: inside-the-outerbelt woodlands home to barred owls, fox kits,

spotted salamanders, and trilliums.”

#LeopoldConference participants share places

that inform their land ethic

Masi MejiaEncinal, Texas

“My heart place is in Texas, preferably holding a horned lizard.”

#LeopoldConference participants share places that inform

their land ethic

Doug MeringBaraboo, Wisconsin

“The outdoors with people who love it too.”#LeopoldConference participants

share places that inform their land ethic

“The environment isn’t over here. The environment isn’t over there. You are the environment.”

-Chief Oren Lyons

Rob HuntSpringfield, Missouri

“A narrow spring-fed Ozark stream that flows through cracks, crevices, and caves, along logs, boulders, moss and ferns.”

#LeopoldConference participants share places that inform

their land ethic

DrewLanhamClemson, SC

“Conservation is simply caring and connecting. Love is the ethic that binds it together.”

#LeopoldConference participants share places

that inform their land ethic

“So when you say environment, or preservation of environment, it is related with many things. Ultimately the decision must come from the human heart, isn’t that right? So I think the key point is genuine sense of universal responsibility which is based on love, compassion and clear awareness.”

-The Dalai Lama

Tara MorrisonMinneapolis, Minnesota

“Northwest Montana - the mountains, the forests, the riversides...I love it all!”

#LeopoldConference participants share places that inform

their land ethic

Don SchoonerWeston, Ohio

“My small piece of utopia that I call Schooner Farms. Where I am fortunate to spend almost every day of my existence.”

#LeopoldConference participants share places

that inform their land ethic

Liu BingwanHeilongjiang Province, China

“Let us work together to build a better world for human beings and wildlife.”

#LeopoldConference participants share places that inform

their land ethic

Marc HirrelLittle Rock, Arkansas

An Alder Fork HaikuTrout fights, river rolls byInfused with water's spiritConnecting to all.

#LeopoldConference participants share places that inform

their land ethic

Kim KasemanWaterville, Ohio

#LeopoldConference participants share places that inform

their land ethic

Karen LanierUpton, Kentucky

“South Fork, Colorado: I learned to camp, fish, hike, explore, watch wildlife, get lost, get hurt, and pee under MY tree.”

#LeopoldConference participants share places that inform

their land ethic

KimberlyBlaeserLyons, Wisconsin

“When I lose myself in natural spaces, come untethered from the now, the static compartmentalized world, then I find my spiritual home.”

#LeopoldConference participants share places that inform

their land ethic

“There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to

pay attention to the story.

-Linda Hogan

Grace VosenBaraboo, Wisconsin

“The Driftless with its gently rolling bluffs and streams is the most beautiful landscape to me, even after traveling.”

#LeopoldConference participants share places

that inform their land ethic

Kathleen YeadonBeech Grove, Indiana

#LeopoldConference participants share places that inform

their land ethic

Tovar CerulliMontpelier, Vermont

“In the distanceis the place they call Lord's Hill.Under the temple dome of the sky,this is my kind of church.”

#LeopoldConference participants share places

that inform their land ethic

Deborah HinchcliffeFairwater, Wisconsin

#LeopoldConference participants share places that inform

their land ethic

“All of life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied to a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.”-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Susie RubySperry, Oklahoma

“The place where wind heals all, no man-made structures, tall or short-grass vistas and heart and soul are freed.”

#LeopoldConference participants share places that inform

their land ethic

Douglas WagonerLainesville, Indiana

“No one particular place but any place wild that embodies unaltered landscapes and ecosystems and is vibrant with life.”

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that inform their land ethic

Jen KobyleckyBaraboo, WI

“Sitting by Moskey Basin on Isle Royale National Park, under Lake Superior's spell.”

#LeopoldConference participants share places that inform

their land ethic

Maria ArnoldFalls Church, Virginia

“On the beach, especially early or late when the only sounds are waves, wind, and a few birds calling to each other.”

#LeopoldConference participants share places

that inform their land ethic

Kristin Alana BaumReadstown, Wisconsin

“The Upper Mississippi River Flyway in Southwest Wisconsin / the Driftless Region.”

#LeopoldConference participants share places that inform

their land ethic

Ryan AdamsPablo, MT

“My heart place is the Mission valley, located in western Montana. It is the place I call home.”

#LeopoldConference participants share places that inform

their land ethic

Roberta MooreBaker, NV

“South Snake Range, NV and Desert Experimental Range Station, UT - in the heart of the hydro-graphic Great Basin.”

#LeopoldConference participants share places

that inform their land ethic

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find

reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something

infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature–

the assurance that dawn comes after night, and

spring after winter.”-Rachel Carson

Kathleen CowensSpringfield, MO

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their land ethic

Celeste PrussiaAva, Missouri

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participants share places that inform

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“Taken in 2012 during an LEP state coordinator meeting. This is an environment in which I feel at home because of the company of friends who hold great significance in my life.”

Jeannine RichardsBaraboo, WI

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participants share places that inform

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Heart Places in Words…

“A quiet place to communicate with nature.”

-Ray Thompson, Sumpter, SC“An oak savanna with a small stream.”

-Jerry Sanders, Fairwater, WI

“Anywhere I can’t hear cars and the sounds and sights of nature abound.”

-Rachel Starnes, Wilmington, OH

“Wisconsin.”-Tim Eisele, Madison, WI

“Family land, intergenerational care.”-Justin Hougham, Baraboo, WI

“My house sits in a woods, and I feel most aligned with the plants and

animals there.”-Sharon Dunwoody, Madison, WI

“Michigan woods, the Great Lakes, the Smoky Mountains, the Adirondack

Mountains.”-Lisa Eddy, Adrian, MI

“The fresh air, clean water, and green hills of Devil's Lake State

Park, Wisconsin.”Steve Swenson, Baraboo, WI

“A valley edged by limestone bluffs, creek and pond. Wetland, woodland,

and prairie. Silent and strong.” -Page Baldwin, Madison, WI

“In the forest and by the sea.”-Susan Setterlin, Columbus, OH

“East Texas Piney Woods, the western extension of the great

Southern forest.”-Dan Utley, Pflugerville, TX

“Surrounded by lush green nature and a warm sun.”

-Laura Zajicek-Bagenski, Kenosha, WI“The Tallgrass Prairie in Osage County,

Oklahoma.”-Luann Waters, Wynnewood, OK

“Outside, ideally in wide open spaces.”-Suzanne Hirrel, Little Rock, AR

“Walking on a rain-drizzled beach in Oregon. Watching the moon float by.

Listening to the wolves.”Tina Krause, Winona, MN

“Mountains, stars, living water & soil, sapphire sky, diverse vegetation, sun,

rain, breezes, bird sounds, snug shelter.”

-Barbara Bolles, Bainbridge Island, WA“Ancient bluffs embracing the lake

where spirit, energy, aliveness fill me with deep stillness and wild ecstatic

dancing.” -Ruthann Corrao, Prairie Du Sac, WI

“Nebraska’s Platte River: rich in history year-round; filled with cranes,

geese, and wonder each spring.” -Doreen Pfost, Elroy, WI

“My 93-acre home: where I strive to know the parts of the land and interact with those parts in positive restorative

ways.”-Stan Temple, Mazomanie, WI

“My heart place is a sun-dappled landscape with ancient trees, crisp

water and rich soil. It is humming with life!”

-Sasha Wohlpart, Cedar Falls, IA

“Any wild place where all wild things, each with their own melodius note, in

complex harmony, make beautiful songs.”

-Diana Nowels, Toledo, OH“Hiking into wilderness to a secluded campsite with access to waterfalls,

wildlife, nature and a clear view of the skies.”

-Kimberly Waites, Birmingham, AL“A question to ponder - one is a lake in

Maine where family gathers in summer.” -Patricia Becker, Madison, WI

“Any permanent or semi-permanent wetland in the Prairie Pothole Region embedded and surrounded by native

prairie.”-Erv Klaas, Ames, IA

“My big two-chambered heart loves Kauai's natural mtns and beaches and the dry basins and range country of

the southwest.” -Tony Chiaviello, Houston, TX

“Where the wind, water and mountains meet.”

-Gail Luera, Ann Arbor, MI

“The wildlife area on my farm.”-Lou Best, Bluffton, OH

“Alone in the woods. A light murmur of wind. No phone. No electricity.

Crossing paths with nature. Connected & detached.”

-Matt Schoeffler, Sun Prairie, WI“My heart lies with the wind. The wind that is carried amongst the birds in the trees,

wildlife below, and their habitat.”-Kari Smith, Pablo, MT

“Sleeping Dunes where I grew up and learned to ID trees and birds;

Togwotee Pass, WY– here I studied the subalpine.”

-John Latimer, Grand Rapids, MN

“Kaçkar Mountains: because in this amazing area, there are remnant wild

lands, untouched since times immemorial.”

-Ufuk Ozdag, Ankara, Turkey“Winter hiking in the woods.”

-Kathleen Yeadon, Beech Grove, IN

“It is Wisconsin. It is where my grandparents, without knowing it, taught me to love the land and its

treasures.”-Kathleen Cowens, Springfield, MO

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