The 50th anniversary of A Sand County Almanac will be celebrated Oct. 4-7 at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center in Madison, Wis. Building on Leopold’s Legacy: Conservation for a New Century presents Bruce Babbitt, Michael Dombeck, and conservation biologist Richard Knight, among others. The conference fee is $250. Live Webcasts of the conference are offered where participants can interact online before, during and after the conference. Contact the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters at 608/263-1692 (www.wisc.edu/wisacad/landethic) for more information.

This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Building on Leopold’s Legacy: Conservation for a New Century.

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