"Aldo Leopold on Remaining Hopeful 'In a World of Wounds'": In-person Badger Talk in Madison, WI
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Join presenter Stanley Temple on September 4, 2025, at 6:15 PM at Sequoya Public Library- Community Rm A/B for the Annual Business Meeting of The Friends of Hoyt Park (FoHP) to explore the four major categories of “wounds” that we inflict on nature.
Aldo Leopold wrote that “one of the penalties of an ecological education” was to live “in a world of wounds” that are barely noticed by most people. Leopold was hopeful that once we learned to see and understand the wounds that human activities inflict on nature we might be more inclined to do less harm. Professor Stan Temple will explore Leopold’s writings and discuss the four major categories of “wounds” that we inflict on nature: deliberate and inadvertent overkilling of species, deliberate and accidental introductions of invasive exotic species, destruction and degradation of natural habitats, and release of environmental pollutants that cause pervasive ecosystem stress. Aldo Leopold’s timeless ideas about our relationship with nature continue to provide hope that we may find a way to live on Planet Earth without spoiling it.
Presenter Stanley (Stan) Temple is the Beers-Bascom Professor Emeritus in Conservation in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology at UW–Madison. For 32 years he held the academic position once occupied by Aldo Leopold. He is currently a Senior Fellow with the Aldo Leopold Foundation. He and his students have helped save some of world’s most endangered species and the habitats on which they depend. He has received major conservation awards from the Society for Conservation Biology, The Wildlife Society, and the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology. Among other recognitions of his achievements, he is a Fellow of the American Ornithological Society, Explorers Club, Wildlife Conservation Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. He has been President of the Society for Conservation Biology and Chairman of the Board of The Nature Conservancy in Wisconsin. He was recently inducted into the Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame.
Aldo Leopold wrote that “one of the penalties of an ecological education” was to live “in a world of wounds” that are barely noticed by most people. Leopold was hopeful that once we learned to see and understand the wounds that human activities inflict on nature we might be more inclined to do less harm. Professor Stan Temple will explore Leopold’s writings and discuss the four major categories of “wounds” that we inflict on nature: deliberate and inadvertent overkilling of species, deliberate and accidental introductions of invasive exotic species, destruction and degradation of natural habitats, and release of environmental pollutants that cause pervasive ecosystem stress. Aldo Leopold’s timeless ideas about our relationship with nature continue to provide hope that we may find a way to live on Planet Earth without spoiling it.
Presenter Stanley (Stan) Temple is the Beers-Bascom Professor Emeritus in Conservation in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology at UW–Madison. For 32 years he held the academic position once occupied by Aldo Leopold. He is currently a Senior Fellow with the Aldo Leopold Foundation. He and his students have helped save some of world’s most endangered species and the habitats on which they depend. He has received major conservation awards from the Society for Conservation Biology, The Wildlife Society, and the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology. Among other recognitions of his achievements, he is a Fellow of the American Ornithological Society, Explorers Club, Wildlife Conservation Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. He has been President of the Society for Conservation Biology and Chairman of the Board of The Nature Conservancy in Wisconsin. He was recently inducted into the Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame.
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