The Aldo Leopold Shack and Farm is a historic property in rural Sauk County, Wisconsin, on the south bank of the Wisconsin River northeast of Baraboo. The conservationist Aldo Leopold began acquiring the roughly 264-acre farm in 1935 and used it as a family retreat until his death in 1948, restoring a former chicken coop as the shack where he wrote much of A Sand County Almanac. The property, including former farmland restored to native prairie and floodplain forest, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 2009, and is now owned and operated by the Aldo Leopold Foundation. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The Aldo Leopold Shack and Farm is a historic farm on Levee Road in rural Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States.
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The Aldo Leopold Shack and Farm is a historic farm on Levee Road in rural Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States. The property was acquired in the 1930s as a family summer retreat by the noted conservationist and writer Aldo Leopold and is the landscape that inspired his conservation ethic and the writing of his best-known work, A Sand County Almanac.
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Leopold began buying land here in 1935, acquiring more than 150 acres (61 ha) by the time of his death in 1948.
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