A CRITICAL-EXAMINATION OF ANOTHER LOOK AT LEOPOLDS LAND ETHIC

Reevaluating Aldo Leopold's land ethic is timely, but Boris Zeide's cr itique of it is both biased and logically flawed. The real target of Z eide's essay is ecosystem management. The real sciences in which the l and ethnic is grounded are evolutionary biology, community ecology, an d ecosystem ecology, not the outmoded Clementsian superorganism paradi gm in ecology. Although Zeide believes in a strictly zero-sum world, A ldo Leopold had faith that we could achieve win-win solutions: log our forests and maintain their health and integrity; prosper economically and protect our ecological heritage.