Product Description: Ernest Oberholtzer (1884-1977) is one of the great unsung heroes of the American conservation movement of the twentieth century. Selected as one of the 100 influential Minnesotans of the twentieth century by the Minneapolis Star Tribune, a friend and contemporary of both Aldo Leopold and Sigurd Olson, and one of founders of The Wilderness Society, "Ober" was best known for his pioneering work to preserve one of the last remaining wilderness areas east of the Rockies—the Quetico-Superior region of northern Minnesota and southern Ontario...read more

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Product Description: Joe Paddock writes with great passion of the male experience--its pain, growth, and healing, and the relationships between men that often go unsung in poetry. In this powerful collection, Paddock focuses on his childhood in the rolling farmlands of Minnesota--the male elders of small town society who "lived and died so quietly that they went almost unnoticed"; the farmer who carried the "heavy hump of work with him everywhere"; the man who really did think he was Jesus; and most particularly, the author's father, who was his hero from earliest memory...read more

Offers a practical model for preserving farmlands and caring for the earth

Product Description: Book by Paddock, Joe (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)