Nina Leopold Bradley Moves On....

Nina Leopold Bradley Passes Away at 93
It is with heavy hearts that we share the news of Nina's passing on the morning of May 25, 2011. After 93 years of exceptional health things deteriorated rapidly for Nina beginning on Monday of this week. She was with her family, surrounded by the wildness she loved to the very end. The Aldo Leopold Foundation and the Leopold family thank you for all of the outpouring of support.
Nina Leopold Bradley, 93, died May 25, 2011 at her home on the Leopold Reserve near Baraboo WI. She was born August 4, 1917 in Albuquerque NM, the third child of famed conservationist Aldo Leopold and Estella Bergere Leopold, of a prominent Hispanic family in New Mexico.
Nina will be remembered as a scientist, conservationist, philosopher, and humanitarian by an international community of colleagues. After growing up in New Mexico, she attended the University of Wisconsin, graduating in the 1930s with a major in geography. With her first husband zoologist William Elder, she collaborated on many wildlife projects, studying Canada geese in Illinois, ducks in Manitoba, big game populations in Africa, and the rediscovered but nearly extirpated population of Nene geese in Hawaii. During World War II, she worked for Dr. Thomas Park on the Tribolium project at the University of Chicago studying insect populations. In 1971, Nina accepted a position with the Thorne Ecological Institute in Boulder, CO, facilitating conferences to introduce corporate leaders to important ideas in ecology. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including honorary doctorates from Northland College and the University of Wisconsin.
Along with her second husband Charles Bradley, she rekindled the "axe-in-hand" philosophy of her father, establishing the Bradley Study Center on the Leopold Reserve along the Wisconsin River in 1976. This work included creation of a graduate ecological research program in cooperation with the University of Wisconsin and expansion of the land restoration and phenological observation that her family had begun so many years ago. The work of Nina and Charles was instrumental in the establishment of the internationally recognized Aldo Leopold Foundation and the construction of the Leopold Center.
In lieu of flowers the family requests that donations be made to the Aldo Leopold Foundation, Box 77, Baraboo WI 53913.