Starting Conversations is celebrating the Gila Wilderness Centennial with a special series featuring Steve Morgan, Chautauqua performer, as Aldo Leopold in conversation with three scholars working directly in forestry, environmental restoration, and land ethics.
Aldo Leopold’s influence and legacy extends beyond the Gila Wilderness and all he did to revolutionize our relationship with public land. His perspective on understanding how to observe the environment and its ecosystems contributed significantly to the concept of land ethics. Ultimately, environmentalism is about more than just preservation and restoration, rather, it’s a complex practice of land ethics.
In this final episode of Starting Conversations with Aldo Leopold, Dan Shilling is back again to discuss the concepts behind land ethics.
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Steve Morgan is a naturalist, performer-educator, and a Landscape Architect focused on creating, restoring, and retaining natural habitat. The southwest has been his home for 50 years and he currently resides in Kingston, New Mexico with his wife Nicole and their dogs. His goal is to continue teaching Leopold’s wisdom to encourage careful observation, inspire wonder, and promote environmental action and change.
Dan Shilling, Ph.D. Author, Lecturer, is a native Pennsylvanian where he taught high school. Dan moved to Arizona in 1980 and earned his Ph.D. from Arizona State University. He joined the Arizona Humanities Council as a program officer in 1984, and was named Executive Director in 1989, a position he stepped down from in 2003. At AHC he developed several award-winning projects on environmental history and community building. After leaving AHC, he directed a three-year, federally funded project on place-based tourism.