Audubon articles from January 2001

Audubon archives from January 2001

Smarter Wood.(selecting wood products)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... HOW MANY TREES WERE FELLED TO MAKE THE MAGAZINE you hold? I'll give you a clue: a lot--a shocking number. The actual total, along with an examination of how those trees became the paper this article is printed on, is in Don Webster's "The Paper...

Audubon view.(programs and efforts of the National Audubon Society)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... DEAR AUDUBON MEMBER: I LIKE TO WIN, ESPECIALLY WHEN WILDLIFE HABITAT IS AT STAKE. It isn't often that we can claim big victories in conservation. But over the past few months, we've had not one but two exceptional wins. First, a...

letters.
January 1, 2001... In Praise of Wolves REGARDING "LIVING WITH WOLVES" [November-December 2000]: About 12 Americans are killed each year by dogs, and an additional 4.7 million are bitten yearly. There is not one verified incident of a wild wolf killing a...

Monkey See, Monkey Doomed.(hunters are stripping many of the African forests of monkeys, with the red colobus perhaps the most endangered)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... SHOTGUN SHELLS, TRAPS, AND SNARES litter the West African forests where the monkey once lived. And the canopy is alarmingly silent. "It's like walking through a school with no children," says Scott McGraw, an anthropologist at Ohio State...

TIMBERMEN PREFER BLONDES.(Goldie Hawn objects to the 'Goldie Fawn Timber Sale')(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The wild-and-crazy Bureau of Land Management sometimes gives timber sales funny names, like "Rusty Saw." When the actress Goldie Hawn discovered last summer that a 100-acre sale near Oregon's Fawn Creek had been named in her honor, she fired...

REQUIEM FOR THE ARCHDRUID.(environmentalist David Brower, died at age 88)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
January 1, 2001... "Ours is a chain-letter economy, in which we pick up early handsome dividends and our children find their mailboxes empty.... We've got to kick this addiction. It won't work on a finite planet; declared David Brower in John McPhee's classic...

TURTLE E.R.(many Ridley sea turtles were rushed to the New England Acquarium for emergency first aid in the winter)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Every winter, cold weather strands a few dozen hypothermic Ridley and other sea turtles on the beaches of Cape Cod. Last December, for reasons unknown, 278 turtles washed ashore, many of them dying right on the beach. "There are only about...

TRASHING THE HEAVENS.(human space debris continues to accumulate)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... NO MATTER WHERE HUMANS TRAVEL IN search of adventure, they have always had trouble packing out their trash. Perhaps no site on earth better illustrates this tendency than Mount Everest's base camp, where climbers have left garbage behind for...

Road Assault.(environmental effects of salting roads in the winter)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... SOME SAY THE ROMANS USED TO SALT their enemies' fields. These days, we salt our own. In 1999 more than 16.5 million tons of rock salt was used to de-ice roads in the United States. Two salt detectives, University of Maine professors Steve...

GUILT-FREE SEAFOOD.
January 1, 2001... A new set of consumer tools may make you think twice about sinking your teeth into Patagonian toothfish (otherwise known as Chilean sea bass) or scarfing down scallops dredged off the New England coast. The National Audubon Society's Living...

Wayne's World.(Wayne Sawchuk has become one of British Columbia's leading environmentalists)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... "WHEN I WAS YOUNG," SAYS WAYNE SAWCHUK, "I USED to help burn down towns." His family are loggers in British Columbia, and during the 1960s and '70s they felled forests and towns behind new hydroelectric dams. "Reservoirs need to be cleared...

What Grows in Grottoes.
January 1, 2001... Tucked away below our daylit world lies a realm of blind beetles, winged mammals, and eyeless millipedes. TO CALM MY FEAR, I CONCENTRATE on the water dangling in front of my face, a single drop about to drip from the tip of an inch-long...

A Matter of Scale.
January 1, 2001... What's a wilderness lover to do when he's exiled to the city? One writer looks through his children's eyes to see the wilderness in a town block. IT WAS NOT A HAPPY DAY WHEN I LEARNED THAT my family and I would be moving to Cincinnati,...

THE FUTURE OF OUR FORESTS.
January 1, 2001... "America's vast green treasure house can be made self-perpetuating... with scientific help," proclaimed a 1967 booklet from Weyerhaeuser, the timber and paper company. In fact, unlike oil or minerals, trees are the ultimate renewable resource....

goodwood.
January 1, 2001... NEXT TIME YOU CONSIDER HOME IMPROVEMENTS, HEAD TO THE STORE AND ASK ABOUT THE GROWING LINE OF CERTIFIED-WOOD PRODUCTS. YOU'LL HELP REDUCE CLEARCUTS AND OTHER HARMFUL LOGGING PRACTICES IN FAVOR OF GREENER FORESTS. The weekend project looms....

the PAPER CHASE.
January 1, 2001... WORRIED ABOUT HOW MANY TREES DIED TO MAKE THIS MAGAZINES? SO ARE WE. WHICH IS WHY WE SENT A REPORTER TO INVESTIGATE HOW AUDUBON'S OWN PAPER IS MADE. LIKE ALL OF THE TREES FELLED TO MAKE THE MAGAZINE you currently hold, the red pine I have...

ALBATROSS WANDERINGS.
January 1, 2001... WHEN 1.2 MILLION BIRDS OF THE SAME SPECIES BREED ON A FEW TINY ISLANDS, HOW DO THEY FIND FOOD? IF THEY'RE ALBATROSSES, THEY TAKE TO THE SKY. SCIENTISTS TRACKED ONE MOTHER WHO FLEW 38,706 MILES IN FOUR MONTHS TO FEED HER CHICK. I HAVE TO...

Shooting Like a Pro.
January 1, 2001... How close to zoom in on that bird? What kind of lens to use? Five top nature photographers share their secrets. FOR SEVERAL SUMMERS IN THE 1980s, I TAUGHT A nature-photography class at the Maine Photographic Workshops, telling the students...

ask audubon.(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2001... How can squirrels, unlike cats, climb down trees? Barbara Helm, Fort Collins, Colorado WHILE IT'S BEEN SAID THAT A CAT'S BRAIN IS ONLY BIG enough to get it up a tree, a squirrel's brain, at about the size of a walnut, is four times...

Florida the Natural Selection.
January 1, 2001... The Florida most tourists know well is a place oil many delights -- from its theme parks and great resorts to its sun-drenched beaches and superb sports venues. The other Florida -- the one that's now being discovered by more and more of those...

NO DRAW.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... In Bomoseen, Vermont, it's known as the bill that won't die. During the past three years, state representatives have tried repeatedly to introduce legislation that would permit the drawdown of Lake Bomoseen, which Jim Shallow, executive...

Saving the Everglades.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... THIS PAST NOVEMBER, AUDUBON WON A HUGE VICTORY WHEN CONGRESS approved a 20-year, $7.8 billion plan to save the ailing Florida Everglades. In an effort to halt 50 years of environmental decline, the newly authorized Comprehensive Everglades...

BIRDS AWAY!(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... There's probably no other place in the world where birders have to take a class in military munitions before venturing out with their binoculars. But at bomb site B-70 on the Eglin Air Force Base in the Florida Panhandle, it's the only way...

FORGET THE CHINA; I'LL TAKE THE PUFFINS.
January 1, 2001... Trying to save the environment and buy a unique wedding gift at the same time? That's exactly what Ann and Scott Hedges were thinking when they posted a link to Audubon's Adopt-a-Puffin program on the bridal-registry section of their wedding...

audubon ARCHIVE 1941.
January 1, 2001... 1941 For more than 41 years this magazine is called BirdLore. But consultants judge the name antiquated and suggest Audubon Magazine (later simply Audubon), The new banner appears with the January 1941 issue. Roger Tory Peterson paints a pair...

Stealthy Footprints in the Swamp.
January 1, 2001... VISITORS TO AUDUBON'S CORKSCREW Swamp Sanctuary in southern Florida will find much to admire at the new $3 million Blair Audubon Center--not least of which is how hard it is to see. The sand-colored building with sage-green trim blends in...

CAPTAIN'S LOG.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... A five-person volunteer birding team from the Audubon Society of Greenwich, Connecticut, may hold the record for greatest age diversity. Ranging in years from 8 to 74, the members are donating their time and birdwatching skills to the Egret and...

SOWING NEW WILDLIFE HABITAT, SEED BY SEED.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... AUDUBON'S INNOVATIVE CONSERVATION PROGRAM IS A BIG HIT WITH CALIFORNIA FARMERS AND RANCHERS. JEANNE WIRKA AND JUDY BOSHOVEN ARE ON THEIR hands and knees, pawing through yellowed stalks of dried oats strewn across a hillside west of the...

ROCKHEADED.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Birders far and wide call this road stop "magical" and pull over whenever they pass through southern Arizona. It is the Patagonia Roadside Rest, along scenic Route 82, and it offers birdwatchers a chance to glimpse numerous species from south...

UP FOR THE COUNT.
January 1, 2001... BIRD LOVERS UNITE! NO MATTER where you are in North America from February 16 to 19, you can participate in the Fourth Annual Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC). Bird populations are in a continual state of flux, and this annual event serves as a...

Channel Buster.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... A RED-TAILED HAWK, BROUGHT IN WITH TWO BROKEN LEGS, IS RECUPERATING AT GARY Pearson's small animal hospital--the only one in North Dakota whose door is always open for wild-animal emergencies. A solo practitioner, Pearson has been in since 7:30...

Miller's Winning Streak.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Long before he took up birding, Dave Miller, the executive director of the National Audubon Society of New York State, was an ardent Yankees fan. Last summer, as the Bronx Bombers were on their way to their third consecutive world championship,...

In Search of the Golden Frog.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... In Search of the Golden Frog By Marty Crump. University of Chicago Press, 299 pages, $27. BIOLOGIST MARTY CRUMP HAS BEEN on the front lines of amphibian research for the past 30 years. In Search of the Golden Frog offers a lively account...

Nature Out of Place: Biological Invasions in the Global Age.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Nature Out of Place: Biological Invasions in the Global Age By Jason Van Driesche and Roy Van Driesche. Island Press, 363 pages, $29.95. THE PROBLEM OF INVASIVE AND ecologically disruptive species confronts us everywhere, from zebra...

Jungles.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... art of the wild... When Henri Rousseau created his resplendent jungle paintings, he had never set foot in a real-life jungle. His sources were illustrations and visits to the zoo and botanical gardens in Paris. Like Rousseau, the...

Food's Frontier: The Next Green Revolution.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Food's Frontier: The Next Green Revolution By Richard Manning. North Point Press, 225 pages, $24. RICHARD MANNING EXPLAINS THAT although the Green Revolution of the latter half of the 20th century increased crop yields dramatically, it did...

The Eagles Have Landed.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... WITHOUT QUESTION, THE HONOR OF BEING KNOWN AS the bald eagle capital of North America belongs to the Alaska panhandle town of Haines. Between October and February, as many as 4,000 eagles can be found along a five-mile reach of the Chilkat...