The Amicus Journal articles from June 1997

The Amicus Journal archives from June 1997

Room of their own: endangered species, public lands.(Editorial)
June 22, 1997... Endangered species, public lands Buy land," said Mark Twain. "They aren't making it anymore." Twain lived in the 1800s, and it has taken Americans quite some time to see the truth in what he said. In those days, the country seemed...

Going for the green: Sydney plans the most environmentally sound Olympiad of all. (Sydney, Australia)
June 22, 1997... Sydney plus the most environmentally sound Olympiad of all When a city is chosen to host the biggest sporting event on the globe, its citizens reap two unique benefits. For developers, the Olympics are the windfall of a lifetime. For...

Experiences of the wild: hiking the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. (wilderness extending from Minnesota to Canada)
June 22, 1997... Hiking the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Our third morning on the trail begins in sunshine. We climb the ridge and head east, walking where, ages ago, mountains stood. The sensation is, in fact, like traversing the rugged...

A tree. (poem)
June 22, 1997... There was the tree the day they planted it, a celebration of all he desired to grow, stubborn at first, then mapling out over the yard for birthdays, weddings, its leaves always adding, counting something difficult to see, like a lake glimpsed...

Close encounters. (humans interact with whales in Laguna San Ignacio, Mexico)
June 22, 1997... At Laugna San Ignacio, gray whales and humans make contact. What happens if industry moves in? There are basic tenets when it comes to writing about the environment and wildlife. Rule Number One is be detached. Rule Number Two is don't...

Clearing the air: an epidemiologist takes on the worst air pollution problems of our time. (Joel Schwartz, Harvard School of Public Health)
June 22, 1997... Joel Schwartz is dearly enjoying himself Eyes lively, smile broad, he teases, jokes, hops across the front of the classroom to make a point, and endures the posturing of even the most annoying class showoff with good humor. This is "Advanced...

How nature shapes childhood: personality, play, and a sense of place.
June 22, 1997... Personality, play, and a sense of place The late Wallace Stegner, a sage of the wilderness movement, wrote often about his childhood in the West. In the essay "Finding the Place: A Migrant Childhood," he described the frontier town in...

The beautiful and the dammed: one writer's voyage through water politics in the West.
June 22, 1997... In 1976, after I had spent four years working, as NRDC's house writer, I extracted a three-month leave of absence from John Adams, bought a corroded old jeep, and took off for the mountains, meadows, forests, and rivers of the American West...

Tree Huggers: Victory, Defeat and Renewal in the Northwest Ancient Forest Campaign.
June 22, 1997... by Kathie Durbin The Mountaineers ISBN 0-89886-488-7 $24.95 Owls vs. jobs. Rural vs. urban. Paper warriors vs. timber beasts. "Lords of yesterday" vs. "backpacking elitists." Battle's over resources across the Western states have...

Lost Landscapes and Failed Economies: The Search for a Value of Place.
June 22, 1997... by Thomas Michael Power Island Press ISBN 1-55963-368-9 $29.95 Owls vs. jobs. Rural vs. urban. Paper warriors vs. timber beasts. "Lords of yesterday" vs. "backpacking elitists." Battle's over resources across the Western states have...

Snapshots. (poem)
June 22, 1997... Six black ibis step through the black and mossy panels of summer water. Six times I sigh with delight. Keep looking. The way a muskrat in the snick of its teeth can carry long branches of leaves....

The British Electricity Experiment, Privatization: The Record, the Issues, the Lessons.
June 22, 1997... Edited by John Surrey Earthscan Publications (distributed in the United States by Island Press) ISBN 1-85383-370-3 329 pp., $64 hardback/$30 paper In India, farmers have rioted to preserve their free electricity, instituted years ago...

Spring peepers. (poem)
June 22, 1997... Their voices are thin as lines of rain. They pierce the night like tribal singers, threading songs into the beat of the drum, notes shrill and strong as cries of birth. I hear them where the edge of the field ...

Searching for solutions: NRDC's work to protect California's water resources. (Natural Resources Defense Council)
June 22, 1997... NRDC's work to protect California's water resources California, predominantly an arid state, is home to the largest agricultural industry in the country. To produce 45 percent of the nation's fruits and vegetables, California farms drink...

On call. (doctors discuss relationship between medicine and environmentalism)
June 22, 1997... NRDC is the first environmental group to have two staff physicians. Dr. Gina Solomon, a graduate Of Brown, Yale, and Harvard Universities, specializes in occupational health and environmental medicine; Dr. David Wallinga, of Dartmouth...

A stake in public lands. (The Practical Activist).(Brief Article)
June 22, 1997... They are host to a billion and a half recreational visits a year. They provide clean water for townships, essential habitat for fish and wildlife, carbon storage that mitigates global warming, runoff absorption that stems floodwaters, and...