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We have purchased the Aldo Leopold childhood homes for a research and education center.

We also help private landowners with land health and habitat restoration.

03/19/2026

Just a reminder that the Soil Health Workshop is coming up on the 27th. Deadline for registration is this Friday. Hope many of you can attend to hear these important speakers.

03/17/2026

Leopold biographer Curt Meine will be giving a Zoom talk on our friend, Paul Johnson, who encouraged the start-up of LLA. Date: Wed. Mar. 18 @ 11:00 am. You'll be glad you tuned in. The link is:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86817899822?pwd=Rnjvbu5aZl1rPcLROKa8e83Bu5Nj9a.1&from=addon Meeting ID: 868 1789 98222, Passcode: 690883

03/10/2026

John Muir and Teddy Roosevelt are coming to the Starker-Leopold House to visit with Aldo!!
LLA is starting off this year's Iowa Leopold "Month" with our annual A Sand County Almanac reading on Sunday (the 15th) @ 3:00 PM.
A special addition will be a video called Visionary Voices Then and Now. It features John Muir, Teddy Roosevelt, and Aldo Leopold together. Each character tells how they became involved in conservation and the unusual opportunity of discussing conservation together. Hope you can join us on Sunday.

02/24/2026

Here's a program on the Fish & Wildlife Service that we thought you all might be interested in.

01/12/2026

Hope you are having a peaceful start to the winter beauty. LLA is so thankful for receiving two anonymous matching grants in 2025 to further our goals and projects-- a $25K grant to help pay down the mortgage on the Starker-Leopold House overlooking the river, and a $65K matching grant to start improvements on the Children's Barn Discovery Center.

Please help LLA (an all-volunteer non-profit organization) reach our fundraising goals with a donation to start off your new year gifts for conservation. Your tax-deductible contribution will let LLA maximize these donations and further our success. You can send a check or visit the Leopold Alliance website and click on Pay Pal. (www.leopoldalliance.org)

Happy New Year to all!

10/20/2025

On Sunday, October 26, LLA is pleased to welcome retired professor Roy R. Behrens to present his program on Animal Camouflage, Art & Wildlife. Professor Behrens, Emeritus Professor and Distinguished Scholar at the University of Northern Iowa is a writer, graphic designer, and design historian who taught art for 45 years.

10/08/2025

A discussion panel - "An Evening with Aldo Leopold", is coming up next week, Oct 15-16, sponsored by the River Action Organization of the Quad Cities. Their annual Upper Mississippi River Conference will kick off at 6:30 in the evening at Stoney Creek Hotel Conference Center (Moline) with a panel discussion presented by Father Bud Grant, Professor of Environmental Ethics at St. Ambrose University, Professor Jonathan Pauli, Professor of Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Steve Brower from LLA. Please see the River Action website for program details and registration.

10/07/2025

The Pam Sloan exhibit opening featuring Aldo Leopold's Unearthed Paper at the Art Center was a big success with over 100 attending.

09/29/2025

The Paul Johnson Center for Land Stewardship Policy is excited to share that a published collection of Paul’s writings is set for release on October 2, 2025. Paul followed Leopold's land ethic and was very supportive of establishing LLA.

"We Can Do Better: Collected Writings on Land, Conservation, and Public Policy" by Paul W. Johnson, edited by Curt Meine. Several book launches around the state start with one in Decorah Oct 7th, 6:30Pm @ the Landing Market, College Dr.

Other events will be at:
Oct 25th @ the Wisconsin Book Festival at 1:30p.m. at the Madison Central Library.
Oct 29th @ 4:00 The Harkin Institute, Des Moines.
Oct 30th @ 6:00 Ames Public Library
Nov 19th @ 12:15 Iowa Nature Summit Drake Univ Des Moines.

Hope you can join one of these fine events honoring our friend Paul Johnson.

09/25/2025

Please join us on Friday Oct. 3 at the Art Center of Burlington from 5-8. It's the grand opening of the exhibit "Unearthed; Tracing Aldo Leopold's Legacy through Time and Soil" by LLA's friend, Chicago artist Pam Sloan. Pam will be giving a short talk about her work at 5:00 during the reception.
You may remember that Pam has visited us several times to bury her watercolor paper on the Starker-Leopold grounds. After the fungus and bacteria in the soil work on the paper, Pam digs it up again and uses it to create her artwork, creating stunning pieces of nature. Here you can see Leopold's Night Wolf. The show runs from Oct. 2 through the 29th.

09/11/2025

Let's get together for some volunteer work at the Leopold School Prairie this Saturday Sep 13th @ 9:00 AM while it's still cool, for about an hour.
We are continuing to get ready for some school classes and some of the visitors to the Leopold Houses this Fall. The late summer blooming Rough Blazing Star was very productive this year and lots of seed almost ready for harvesting. There are still a few in bloom.
During some prep weeding (two truckloads), we were glad to see some class experiments going on for saving milkweed seed.
Bring a clipper & gloves and come give a hand or just sit and supervise/watch! Bring a friend too.

07/11/2025

Leopold School Prairie Classroom Clean Up!!
This Saturday morning at 9:00 am we'll meet for an hour at the prairie to do a little weeding and dressing up for the start of the school year. Join in & bring a friend not familiar with the prairie.
The coneflowers, compass plants, verbenas and others are blooming nicely. Butterflies and other pollinators are enjoying their home. Maybe we can find some caterpillars on the many different milkweed species.
We will have pick-ups there to load the weeds and haul them away.
Hope to see you there.

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111 Clay Street
Burlington, IA
52601

Website

http://www.leopoldalliance.org/

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