The delights and dilemmas of a Sand County almanac -- Sand County almanac: -- January: January thaw -- February: Good oak -- March: The geese return -- April: Come high water -- Draba -- Bur oak -- Sky dance -- May: Back from the Argentine -- June: The Alder Fork -- July: Great possessions -- Prairie birthday -- August: The green pasture -- September: The choral copse -- October: Smoky gold -- Too early -- Red lanterns -- November: If I were the wind -- Axe-in-hand -- A mighty fortress -- December: Home range -- Pines above the snow -- 65290 -- The quality of landscape: Wisconsin: -- Marshland elegy -- The sand counties -- Odyssey -- On a monument to the pigeon -- Flambeau -- Deadening -- Illinois and Iowa: Illinois bus ride -- Red legs kicking -- Arizona and New Mexico: On top -- Thinking like a mountain -- Escudilla -- Chihuahua and Sonora: Guacamaja -- Green lagoons -- Song of the Gavilan -- Oregon and Utah: Cheat takes over -- Manitoba: Clandeboye -- The upshot: Conservation esthetic -- Wildlife in American culture -- Wilderness -- The Land ethic -- About the author.