ESTELLA B. LEOPOLD PAPERS

Collection

Identifier: CONS239

Staff Only

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

Papers of Estella B. Leopold make up this collection. There are newspaper clippings about, and letters written in opposition to, the nomination of Walter J. Hickel as Secretary of the Interior. Also included are clippings, articles and reference material on the fossil beds in what would become the Florissant National Monument in Colorado, and the efforts to prevent their destruction by developers prior to it becoming a national monument.

Dates

1967-1971

ACCESS:

The collection is open for research.

OWNERSHIP:

Estella B. Leopold Papers are the physical property of the Denver Public Library.

PUBLICATION RIGHTS:

All requests for permission to publish, reproduce, or quote from material in the collection should be discussed with the appropriate librarian or archivist. Permission for publication may be given on behalf of the Denver Public Library as the owner of the physical item. It is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained by the customer. The Library does not assume any responsibility for infringement of copyright or publication rights of the manuscript held by the writer, heirs, donors, or executors. Reproduction restrictions are decided on a case-by-case basis.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Estella B. Leopold is Emeritus Professor of Botany and Adjunct Professor in Forest Resources at the University of Washington and Chair, Board of Directors of the Aldo Leopold Foundation, Baraboo, Wisconsin. She is also Aldo Leopold's daughter.

Estella Leopold received her bachelor's degree in botany at the University of Wisconsin in 1938, and her master's degree at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1950. She earned her Ph.D. in 1955 in the conservation program at Yale University.

For twenty years, she worked at the U.S. Geological Survey in Denver, Colorado. In 1975 she was named Director of the Quaternary Research Center at the University of Washington in Seattle.