Wisconsin Ag Connection - Nominations Due Soon for Leopold Conservation Award

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Nominations Due Soon for Leopold Conservation Award
Wisconsin Ag Connection - 07/26/2017

Sand County Foundation and Wisconsin Farm Bureau are accepting applications until next week for the $10,000 Leopold Conservation Award. Given in honor of Aldo Leopold, the program recognizes extraordinary achievement in voluntary conservation, inspires other landowners in their communities through these examples and provides a visible forum where leaders from the agricultural community are recognized as conservation leaders outside of the industry.

In his 1949 influential book, A Sand County Almanac, Leopold called for an ethical relationship between people and the land they own and manage, which he called 'an evolutionary possibility and an ecological necessity.'

Last year's winners were Ron Brooks and his daughters Zoey, Syndey, Alyssa and Kelsey, of Brooks Farms. They own and operate a 1,600-acre vertically integrated dairy and crop operation in Waupaca County. David and Leslie Meuer, Chilton; Jack and Pat Herricks, Cashton; Dick and Kim Cates, Spring Green; Jim and Valerie Hebbe, Princeton; Koepke Farms Inc. of Oconomowoc; and Joe Bragger, Independence, were also former winners of the award.

The deadline for nominations is August 4.

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