“No farmer-sportsman group is stronger than the ties of mutual confidence and enthusiasm which bind its members.”

— Aldo Leopold

"History of the Riley Game Cooperative, 1931-1939" [1940]; Published in For the Health of the Land, J. Baird Callicott and Eric T. Freyfogle (eds.), 1999, p. 189.
1940s

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