Rick Knight
Aldo Leopold and the Land Ethic
Benefiting the Library Endowment for Warner College of Natural Resources
Richard Knight is interested in the ecological effects associated with the conversion of the Old West to a New West. A professor of Wildlife Conservation at Colorado State University, he received his graduate degrees from the University of Washington and the University of Wisconsin. While at Wisconsin he was an Aldo Leopold Fellow and conducted his research at Aldo Leopold's farm, living in "The Shack." Before becoming an academic he worked for the Washington Department of Game developing the nongame wildlife program. Presently, he sits on a number of boards including the Colorado Cattlemen´s Agricultural Land Trust, The Quivira Coalition, and the Science Board of the Malpai Borderlands Project. He is an Assigning Editor for the journal Conservation Biology. He was selected by the Ecological Society of America for the first cohort of Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellows which focus on leadership in the scientific community, communicating with the media, and interacting with the business and corporate sectors. His books include: A New Century for Natural Resources Management (1995, Island Press), Stewardship Across Boundaries (1998, Island Press), Ranching West of the 100th Meridian (2002, Island Press), Aldo Leopold and the Ecological Conscience (2002, Oxford Univ. Press), and Ecosystem Management: An Adaptive, Community-Based Approach (2002, Island Press).With his wife Heather, he works with his neighbors in Livermore Valley on stewardship and community-based activities.
Recommended Reading:
- A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
- Aldo Leopold and the Ecological Conscience edited by Rick Knight and Suzanne Riedel
- The Essential Aldo Leopold edited by Rick Knight and Curt Meine