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Passenger Pigeons, Democracy, and a Future to Seize

7AprilAdam M. Sowards1 CommentUncategorizedaldo leopold, passenger pigeon

Martha, the last passenger pigeon, died in the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914. Forty-three years later, in 1947, a monument memorialized the extinct pigeons in Wyalusing State Park in Wisconsin at the confluence of the Mississippi and Wisconsin Rivers, just south of Prairie du Chien. The state’s most famous conservationist, Aldo Leopold, reflected on the bird

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