Aldo Leopold Contest Winner - Sierra Smith
Posted by New Mexico on November 10, 2009 at 10:52am
photo: KUNM Youth Radio Project - Youth Radio/ BY-NC-SA

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The Aldo Leopold writing contest was a New Mexico state-wide writing contest that invited students 6th-12th grade to send in a letter addressed to Aldo Leopold. The topic of the letter was to tell Leopold how his writing concerning "land ethics" are still relevant in today's society.

Sunday, November 8th 2009, the KUNM Youth Radio Project hosted first place Aldo Leopold contest winners Tita VanFleet, Zena Stevenson and Sierra Smith in their studios where the contest winners spoke about Aldo Leopold and read their winning essays.   

Sierra, who is in the 12th grade at Bosque School, won first place for the 10-12 grade category. Her remarkable essay concentrates on the “positives of preservation.” Take a listen to Sierra Smith read her contest winning essay…
 

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