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Your saved-my-life books

In November, I inquired about your “saved-my-life” books. Here’s a selection of your responses.

The book that had the most influence on Steve Wegner’s career with the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Geological Survey was A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold:

This book was required reading in an environmental ethics class for freshmen where I went

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