Join us for CLCF’s Nature Series Talk featuring Buddy Huffaker, Executive Director of the Aldo Leopold Foundation!
Huffaker will share his presentation, The makings of a movement; Conservation’s Past, Present, and Future. The conservation movement has deep roots in America but continues to respond to challenges and opportunities. A Sand County Almanac, written by Aldo Leopold, has served as one of the movement’s most important cornerstones. Having been translated into 16 different languages and just celebrating its 75th anniversary, Buddy will share the unlikely story of this now classic and how Leopold’s call for a Land Ethic remains as relevant as ever and continues to inform and inspire conservation – including the work of the Cedar Lakes Conservation Foundation.
Buddy Huffaker joined the Aldo Leopold Foundation in 1996 as a seasonal intern and has served as Executive Director since 1999. During his tenure the foundation has grown the Leopold Community by protecting the Leopold Shack & Farm (the inspiration and setting for much of the classic A Sand County Almanac) as a National Historic Landmark, constructing the LEED Platinum Aldo Leopold Legacy Center out of trees planted by the Leopold family, producing the Emmy Award winning documentary GreenFire, and supporting ten different foreign translations of A Sand County Almanac. The foundation continues the Leopold family’s commitment to stewardship through the restoration and management of the 4,000 acre Leopold-Pines Conservation Area and by using this experience to inform and inspire other landowners to adopt and implement their own land ethic. Buddy’s leadership in the conservation movement includes service on state and federal advisory committees and participation in three White House Conferences on conservation and environmental education.
CLCF’s Nature Series is sponsored by the Ziegler Family Foundation in Memory of R.D. Ziegler.
