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...ted States and was a life-long fisherman and hunter. Leopold died in 1948 from a heart attack, while fighting a brush fire on a neighbor's farm. Aldo Leopold was born in [[Burlington, Iowa|Burlington]], [[Iowa]]. He grew up in contact with the outdoors – the fields, trees, meadows,

...produce [[urushiol]], a skin irritant that causes an itching rash for most people, technically known as [[urushiol-induced contact dermatitis]]. In extreme c ...[Europe]]ans first entered North America because it has profited immensely from the "[[edge effect]]", enabling it to form lush colonies in such places.

...a variable species, its size being influenced by environmental conditions, from 5 cm up to 50 cm tall. ...and other creeping plants sometimes confused with ground ivy do not spread from nodes on stems. In addition, ground ivy emits a distinctive odor when damag

...ndant is rapidly becoming scarce and hard to find. All these supplies come from wild sources and few of them would pay to cultivate. Moderation and protect ...f the national parks and public reservations the native flora is protected from depredation. With the increase of motors has come an interest in good roads

| Moscow, Russia; Northwood, Iowa | St Peterburg, Russia; Des Moines, Iowa

...ate in the Union, being part of a national system with cooperation and aid from the State. (For list, see Experiment Stations, p. 1195.) ...these institutions in both Canada and the United States may be understood from a brief discussion of the hind-grant institutions in the latter country.

...or the purpose introduced into Congress in 1882 by Hon. C. C. Carpenter of Iowa. The bill finally to become a law was introduced in the House of Representa ...or the maintenance of experiment stations in the forty-eight states, aside from similar grants for stations in Porto Rico and Hawaii, expenditures in the P

...r agriculture, in its largest meaning, is the business of raising products from the land. It is customary, however, to limit the word agriculture to the gr ...s of flowers. We have also the nurseryman, a calling separate and distinct from these, and yet the three must be combined in one individual to make a quali

...ananassa''). Strawberries have a taste that varies by cultivar, and ranges from quite sweet to rather tart. Strawberries are an important commercial fruit ...king later. By June most commercial growers in Southern California switch from selling fresh to selling to freezers, and then get totally out of the marke

...] in the subgenus ''Amygdalus'' within the genus ''Prunus'', distinguished from the other subgenera by the corrugated seed shell.'' ...e word "peach" itself and its cognates in many European languages, derives from an early European belief that peaches were native to [[Persian Empire|Persi