Rediscovering, Rethinking Green Fire
— Utah Valley University 2013

"Rediscovering, Rethinking Green Fire." Lecture given at Utah Valley University, April 4, 2013. Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/80888 This is a video of the lecture.

Aldo Leopold shot a wolf a hundred years ago, the most iconic wolf kill in conservation history, a shooting now historically confirmed, which three decades he elevated into his green fire metaphor and symbol. There are tensions. Was Leopold a hypocrite? He spent the rest of his life hunting and trying to produce more game to kill. Thinking like a mountain, thinking big in the big outdoors, there is a dramatic shift of focus from a dying wolf's eyes to a land ethic. Thinking big enough, globally, Leopold's saving wolves, or wilderness, or game management seems simplistic and parochial before global warming or environmental justice. Still, Leopold is on a moral frontier.

http://hdl.handle.net/10217/178142 This the printed article: "Rediscovering and Rethinking Green Fire," Environmental Ethics 37 (Spring 2015): 45-55.

"Learning how to think like a mountain," Holmes Rolston III, Fort Collins Coloradoan, August 12, 2012, Xplore sec. A newspaper account.
Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/70409