Company Profile
Aldo Leopold Foundation Inc
Company Overview
The mission of the Aldo Leopold Foundation is to foster the land ethic through the legacy of Aldo
Leopold. Based in Baraboo, Wisconsin, we manage, interpret, and preserve the renowned Leopold Shack
and Farm (a National Historic Landmark), which receives thousands of visitors each year. Our care of this
special place continues the Leopold family tradition while demonstrating on-the-ground conservation
relevance for the 21st Century. Offsite, too, we reach regional, domestic, and international audiences
through a variety of education and land stewardship programs. We impart Leopold’s land ethic as
described in A Sand County Almanac—the book for which Leopold is most widely known—actively
engaging educators, citizens, natural resource professionals, and landowners to improve land health in
their own communities.
The Aldo Leopold Foundation headquarters is in an idyllic setting surrounded by 600 acres of
foundation-owned property and an additional 16,000 acres managed collaboratively among public and
private landowners as an Important Bird Area (IBA). The Leopold Center, constructed in 2007, is a LEED
Certified Platinum “green” building that is home to the foundation’s office space and visitor center.
Company History
The Aldo Leopold Foundation is a member supported not-for-profit organization which was started in 1982 by Leopold’s five children in response to the growing interest in their father’s legacy. The foundation utilizes the informative and inspirational legacy of Aldo Leopold in order to develop and inspire a conservation ethic that will insure the health of the land and its people for future generations. For more than twenty years the Foundation has promoted the care of natural resources and fostered an ethical relationship of people to land.