Wisconsin's sights are set on Earth-friendly tourism
One of the spiritual risks of not owning a farm, wrote the late Wisconsin conservationist Aldo Leopold in his 1949 environmental classic A Sand County Almanac, "is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery."

Tour guide Phyllis McKenzie pauses to read Leopold's words in a sun-dappled grove of oak and pine trees near southern Wisconsin's new Aldo Leopold Legacy Center. Fashioned from local wood and stone according to stringent U.S. Green Building Council standards, the center is a short stroll from the converted chicken shack, now a national landmark, where Leopold found his inspiration along the shores of the Wisconsin River.

And in an era in which "eat local" is becoming an epicurean mantra, Leopold's musings about the need for a human connection to the natural world are taking on a renewed significance — particularly in his home state.

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