A Northamptonshire garland Book

A surprising in depth an insightful look into Aldo Leopold's long fascination with deer and deer management. It chronicles his changing perspective over time as he gained insights into the ecology of plant communities and the deer that browsed them. But it also points out where he was not able to, at times, "connect the dots" to see the real picture. But in fairness, the science of ecology and the integration of function in all system seen as a whole was simply not very advanced. Leopold understood it as well as anyone did during his last decade and he brought that to bear on deer management but could not overcome long held but incorrect cultural assumptions about deer and deer management.