A decade later he developed the funny notion that wilderness should actually contain large tracts of undeveloped land. He successfully petitioned for the 1924 establishment of New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness—300,000 hectares of protected landscape that became the first official wilderness area in the United States. Afterward, Leopold transferred to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In 1933, when his book Game Management appeared, defining his fundamental techniques for the conservation and restoration of native wildlife populations, he became chair of the country’s first game management department. Two years later, with the help of three friends, he founded the Wilderness Society, the quartet saying of their goals: “All we desire to save from invasion is the extremely minor fraction of America which yet remains free from mechanical sights and sounds and smell.” Leopold died fighting a brush fire on a neighbor’s farm in April 1948, just a few months shy of the publication of his now legendary Sand County Almanac.
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