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Applied Ecological Services, Inc.
Wisconsin Office
17921 Smith Road,
P. O. Box 256
Brodhead, WI 53520
Phone: 608.897.8641
Voicemail: 608.897.4898
AES Fax: 608.897.8486
TCRN Fax: 608.897.2044
Info@AppliedEco.com
Illinois Office
120 West Main St
W. Dundee, IL 60118
Phone: 847.844.9385
Fax: 847.844.8759
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Kansas City Office
701 E. 22nd Street
Lawrence, KS 66046
Phone 785.842.3300
Fax 785.842.3313
Info.ks@AppliedEco.com
Minnesota Office
21938 Mushtown Rd
Prior Lake, MN 55372
Phone: 952.447.1919
Fax: 952.447.1920
Info.mn@AppliedEco.com
East Coast Office
1100 E. Hector Street Suite #398
Conshohocken, PA 19428
Phone: 610.238.9088
Info.pa@AppliedEco.com
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Nature's Second Chance Restoring the Ecology of Stone Prairie Farm
From the Publisher, Beacon Press:
Renowned conservationist Aldo Leopold once wrote, “A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it does otherwise.” Years after Leopold’s passing, his “land ethic” is a centerpiece for the modern conservation and ecological restoration movements in America, and around the world.
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There are few who have taken to heart Leopold’s vision more than restoration ecologist Steven Apfelbaum, who, over thirty years, transformed his eighty-acre Stone Prairie Farm in Wisconsin into a biologically diverse ecosystem of prairie, wetland, spring brook, and forest. In Nature’s Second Chance, the author captures the intimate relationship he has created with the land and shows how the restored farm is serving as a model for the human community around him.
Opening with his very first walk on the farm, this deeply personal account relates how Apfelbaum and his family worked to restore acres of native wildflowers and wildlife on land he found depleted after years of corn farming. The traditional agricultural community around him was at first deeply suspicious, he explains, but most of them came around to Leopold’s beliefs, as lived by the author, after seeing the benefits of restoration at Stone Prairie Farm. Nature’s Second Chance offers unique insights into the biological world, the processes of ecological recovery, and how humans might play a starring role in healing a planet by implementing Leopold’s land ethic, one farm, lot, or brownfield at a time.
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Book Reviews
- WCLO Radio Stan Milan Show February 6, 2009
- "New Book Describes ‘Defarming’ a Farm" New York Times, February 26, 2009
- New Hampshire Public Radio Virginia Prescott March 31, 2009.
- John Cody at WBBM., news radio in Chicago May 19, 2009.
- John Cody at WBBM., news radio in Chicago August 19, 2009.
- John Cody at WBBM., news radio in Chicago August 20, 2009.
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