Build a Leopold Bench Fundraiser or Service Project
Leopold bench instructions.
This past summer we found the Leopold bench to be an excellent fundraiser and service project. As a fundraiser, a bench was used for a raffle at both the National LEP Conference in Wisconsin and the Focus on Forever Workshop for PF/QF chapter leaders in Nebraska. In Nebraska, the raffle raised $645 for Nebraska’s LEP programs. Raffle tickets were sold for $10 or 3 for $20.
The National Youth Leadership Council built six Leopold benches as a service project for the Norris School District in Lincoln, Nebraska. Each bench had a plaque (donated by Awards Unlimited in Lincoln) and the benches were placed around the school. Before building the benches, the 14 youth learned about Aldo Leopold and his legacy to wildlife management and conservation. Afterwards, they read one of his essays while sitting on the benches.
Click here to download the directions pdf.
9/18/2009
at 10:23 am
Correction made Sept.18, several measurements where marked as feet when they should have been inches. Pdf has been corrected.
10/3/2009
at 9:03 pm
Your bench pdf is not available for some reason. I tried to access it and got an error message. Please repost. Our school is having a Project Wild workshop for teachers in two weeks and I would like to be able to propose that we (or our shop students) make benches for our woods and outdoor areas.
Thanks!
10/5/2009
at 7:29 am
The links have been updated – the bench pdf can be found here
1/1/2010
at 8:47 pm
I am totally amazed that you use the plans cited here for the Leopold bench. They are NOT accurate. In the early 1980s I obtained a leg of a bench cut out by Leopold from Frank Terbilcox a the LMR. From that leg I obtained angles, lengths, joints which I used in writing up the first known set of authentic plans for a Leopold bench. These plans are recognized by the Leopold Foundation as authentic. Plans cited here are not true Leopold. The first citing of Leopold building a bench, that I know of, is in an interview between Carl Leopold and Buddy Hufacker. Gary Laib