Aldo Leopold Foundation

Stewardship, education and outreach:stewardship the Foundation owns and manages the original Aldo Leopold shack and 600 surrounding acres and coordinates the conservation planning and monitoring across the 12,000 acre leopold-pine island important bird area. Land stewardship initiatives demonstrate activities and practices that promote and encourage ecological and ethical use of private and public land and an understanding of the total land community. Education as the primary advocate and interpreter of the Leopold legacy, the Foundation serves nearly 10,000 visitors on-site each year, in addition to many thousands more through our website, newsletter, and outreach programming. As the primary advocate and interpreter of the Leopold legacy, the Foundation also serves as the executor of Aldo Leopold's literary estate, encourages scholarship on Aldo Leopold, and serves as a clearinghouse for information regarding Aldo Leopold, his work, and his ideas. "green fire" film in 2011 the Foundation completed production of the first-ever high-quality documentary film on the life and legacy of Aldo Leopold. Entitled "green fire," the film premiered in albuquerque, new mexico in february 2011. The film, initially broadcast nationally on public television stations in 2012, has continued to be broadcast in major public television markets in subsequent years. "green fire" has helped the Foundation to reach new audiences nationally and internationally and has also expanded the support base. In 2015 the Foundation contracted with bull frog films to expand licensing and distribution of the film to a wider educational market. Aldo Leopold legacy center the Foundation's headquarters are located in the Leopold legacy center, located less than one mile from the Leopold shack. Opened in 2007, the Leopold legacy center was built using pines the Leopold family planted in the 1930s and 1940s and implements a wide spectrum of green building techniques and technologies.