An easy-to-make, durable and comfortable bench often is pictured outside the Aldo Leopold shack, which occupies part of an abandoned farm on land Leopold purchased in 1935. The farm is on the sandy ...

The annual Leopold Bench Workshop at the Indiana Dunes State Park paid homage to Aldo Leopold, the “father of modern-day ecology,” said Brad Bumgardner, the park’s interpretive naturalist. In 1949, ...

WAUPUN — Visitors to seven Waupun parks can rest easy this summer thanks to Cole Panzer of Boy Scout Troup 711. That’s because he is making 14 “Aldo Leopold”-style benches, not only to just relax on, ...