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The Society of American Foresters is celebrating its 125th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, SAF has published a collection of essays that look at the many facets of the organization’s history, impact, and legacy in the new book Our Forests, Our Future: Honoring the Past, Engaging the Present, and Leading to the Future. Join historian Char Miller, the book’s editor and a contributor, and FHS historian Jamie Lewis for a discussion about the book and of SAF’s history and future.

Char Miller is the W.M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and History at Pomona College. His most recent books include The Yale School of the Environment: The First 125 Years (Forthcoming), Burn Scars: A Documentary History of Fire Suppression, From Colonial Origins to the Resurgence of Cultural Burning (2024), Natural Consequences: Intimate Essays for a Planet in Peril (2022), and West Side Rising: How San Antonio’s 1921 Flood Devastated a City and Sparked a Latino Environmental Justice Movement (2021).

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While Aldo Leopold’s impact on the conservation movement is broad and deep, he is best known as the author of the now classic book A Sand County Almanac. Translated into sixteen languages, it is one of the foundational texts for those around the world who care about people and places. But becoming a classic doesn’t happen overnight; it requires great writing, and often a few twists of fate. Buddy will introduce Leopold’s writing and publishing journey as well as the online archival resources at the University of Wisconsin and elsewhere available to do your own deep dive into the making of an American classic.

Buddy Huffaker has served as Executive Director at the Aldo Leopold Foundation 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 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 4,400-acre Leopold-Pines Conservation Area and by using this experience to inform and inspire other landowners to adopt and implement their own land ethic.