Marquette Island is the largest of the 36 islands in the Les Cheneaux archipelago of northern Michigan, United States. Located in Mackinac County on the north shore of Lake Huron, the island has a sma
Aldo Leopold and Les Cheneaux Michigan Historical Marker
Aldo Leopold was an American writer, philosopher, naturalist, scientist, ecologist, forester, professor, conservationist, and environmentalist. He taught at the University of Wisconsin and is best kno
Marquette Island
…a number of large summer homes which remain the most conspicuous feature of Marquette Island. Among the early members of the Club was the family of Aldo Leopold, who spent his childhood summers in the woods and waters of the Les Cheneaux Islands. Five separate parcels of Island property have been dedicated as…
Leopold in 1946
Leopold's entry in the Yale Sheffield Scientific School yearbook, 1908
Leopold's headstone at his family plot in Aspen Grove Cemetery in Burlington, Iowa
Aldo Leopold with quiver and bow seated on rimrock above the Rio Gavilan in northern Mexico while on a bow hunting trip in 1938