Audubon articles from January 2002

Audubon archives from January 2002

Editor's note.(importance of parks and natural preserves in times of national crisis)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
January 1, 2002... TRY AS WE MIGHT, WE CANNOT SHAKE SEPTEMBER 11 FROM OUR consciousness any more than we can will ourselves to wake up from a very bad dream. As William Cronon points out in this issue's Special Section, "This Land Is Your Land" (page 35), the...

Audubon view.(Important Bird Areas programme, habitat protection effort)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... DEAR AUDUBON MEMBER: EACH YEAR, AUDUBON PUBLISHES A WATCHLIST OF BIRD SPECIES IN decline and in need of help to stay off the federal endangered-species list. Last year 105 species made the WatchList; 41 other bird species are already...

Defending the Arctic. (letters).(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2002... TO RICK BASS'S EXCELLENT DIScussion of "Double-Talk" [Journal, November-December], I would add a note. As a young editorial assistant at Audubon, I was taught by my mentors to always write, and say, "Arctic National Wildlife Refuge"--or simply,...

Control Issue. (letters).(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2002... I READ "OUT OF CONTROL," BY TED Williams [September-October], with distress. It's labeled "Incite," and that seems to be its main purpose. The author paints a whole group as bad with one brush. My experience with Florida Mosquito Control...

Corrections.(Correction Notice)
January 1, 2002... ON PAGE 41 OF THE NOVEMBER-December issue, the plants identified as bird-of-paradise are actually heliconias. There were two incorrect phone numbers in the September-October issue. The number for the Klamath Basin Audubon Society (page 23)...

Operation self-reliance. (Energy Policy).(congressional plan to reduce national dependence on foreign oil)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... SINCE SEPTEMBER 11, DEMOCRATS AND Republicans alike have called for a national energy plan that reduces America's dependence on foreign oil. "Without energy security, you can't have national security," Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham warned...

Weed eaters with horns. (Reports).(use of goats in wildfire prevention)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... They may not be as cuddly as Smokey the Bear, but a voracious crew of California goats has become the state's latest fire-prevention tool. Officials at the Sunnyvale Landfill, near San Francisco, recently called on the horned groundskeepers to...

Touchdown for birds. (Reports).(restoration of river corridor, wetlands adjacent to football stadium)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Ever watch an NFL quarter-back go deep and a blue heron take flight, all in one day? Well, fans of the New England Patriots football team can see both, thanks to the "construction" of a river corridor and the restoration of wetlands adjacent to...

Swamp sweetener. (Reports).(Save Our Everglades Sugar campaign, environmental protection effort)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... For the past 60 years a 500,000-acre sweet spot between Florida's Everglades National Park and Lake Okeechobee has been contaminating the surrounding ecosystem. Half of the nation's sugarcane is produced here, and fertilizer runoff from the...

Bearing proof. (Environmental Law).(survival dependance of grizzly bear on Endangered Species Act)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... SINCE IT CREATION THREE DECADES AGO, the Endangered Species Act (ESA) has been hailed by biologists as a lifeline for thousands of imperiled animals and plants. In recent years, however, a debate over the controversial act's implementation and...

Quadruple latte for frogs. (fieldnotes).(control of coqui frog in Hawaii)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... In Puerto Rico, the native coqui frog has long been treasured for its melodic two-tone call. But in Hawaii, where the frog is considered an invasive pest, that same call is being likened to the sound of a lawnmower, and angry, sleep-deprived...

Eco-provocateur. (Profile).(scientist Bjorn Lomborg)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... HIS FRIENDS CALL HIM A HERETIC, HIS colleagues give him the cold shoulder, and at a recent speaking appearance in England, protesters threw a pie in his face. But Bjorn Lomborg, a Danish scientist, former member of Greenpeace, and author of the...

Dumb cars.(efficient automobile energy consumption to reduce national dependence on foreign oil)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Today the average American-driven vehicle is bigger, faster, and roomier than ever. But all that extra power and comfort comes at a price: the worst fuel economy in 21 years, down to 20.4 miles per gallon, according to a recent report from the...

Earth's catalogue. (Biodiversity).(All Species Inventory, living species documentation project)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... MOVE OVER LEWIS AND CLARK THE All Species Inventory, a newly launched initiative to document every living species on earth, may go down as the greatest survey of all time. Led by an all-star cast of prominent scientists and media barons,...

Zebra zapper. (fieldnotes).(electromagnetic waves in control of zebra mussels)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... In recent years zebra mussels have been one of our most troublesome invasive species, wreaking havoc on U.S. waterways. Now researchers at Purdue University think they have met the challenge: Using a technique that's part hi-fi and part sci-fi,...

Web masters: for 200 million years, spiders have been spinning their silky traps to capture prey. But their engineering marvels have a host of other uses that scientists are just now beginning to unravel. (true nature).
January 1, 2002... SHE'S JUST WHAT I'VE BEEN SEARCHING FOR. PLUMP, HAIRY, EIGHT WIRY LEGS akimbo, the black-and-yellow Argiope seems to float upside down in the air. I kneel less than a foot from this two-inch spider, which is common to gardens nationwide. When...

This land is your land turning to nature in a time of crisis.
January 1, 2002... I STAND ON THIS FAMILIAR ground, gazing out across the lake in the city that is my home, with the buildings of the University of Wisconsin and the dome of the State Capitol rising from the water on the horizon. Today I've sought out what may...

Minnesota.(canoe trip through Boundary Waters Canoe Area)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... I live right up next to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area--that's why I moved here. I came for the wolves and the wilderness. This is canoe country: Within a 30-mile radius of me there are almost 1,000 lakes. I took a weeklong canoe trip with my...

Loving the land.(solace offered by nature in times on national crisis)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... THE TREES HERE IN SOUTHERN INDIANA don't know about the September 11 massacre. They don't know about the American bombs and missiles hurtling down on a remote country in revenge for that massacre. They live as they've always lived, breathing in...

Utah.(spiritual tranquility to be found in Goosenecks area of San Juan River)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... My work focuses on the interaction between culture and nature. Often that leads me to wilderness areas that are visited by people. The Goosenecks of the San Juan River is one such place, and it's one of the most spectacular views in the...

Saying grace.(being thankful for gifts of nature; importance of environmental protection)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT THE GRAND Canyon that brings the busy human engine of desires to a quiet halt. Taking the long view across that vermilion abyss attenuates us to quieter internal rhythms, the spirit of ice ages, and we gasp, and we...

Cape cod.(narrative)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... To get to this beach, you'd come through the woods, walking on a pine-needle path, and then climb the dunes. You wouldn't see the water, but you'd hear the rumble of the surf. And then you'd hit this notch--it was always breathtaking. There was...

Wild comfort.(finding solace in nature in times of national crisis)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... EARLY THAT MORNING THERE WAS BLUE SKY. No smoke, no hijacked planes. Rivers of migrating swallows flowed over the marshes, and flocks of terns formed and broke and formed again over a calm ocean, chasing migrating bluefish for the anchovies...

Seeing clearly.(finding solace in nature in times of national crisis)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... CERTAIN PLACES GIVE US THE PEACE OF the benign--comfort by softness, or maternal calm. Others strip us of our illusions, offering the peace of cleanly seen truths. If they are beautiful, it is a desperate beauty. We go to the spare places for...

Alaska.(LeConte Glacier; narrative)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... I was born in the city--in Brooklyn, where I live now. The world I grew up in is a constructed world, though very magical in its own way. But in a place like this, there's a real connection with higher forces, whatever they may be. It...

Sacred ground.(finding solace in nature in times of national crisis)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... I'M THE LUCKY ONE, A PERSON WHO LIVES AT the edges of her dream. Everyone has a dreamplace, and they call it dream because they don't live there. Their dream is perfect. My edge is not. I live in the valley of the Blackfoot River in western...

Catskill Park.(nature photograph)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... My wife and I hiked up to Giant Ledge with two good friends, and I took this picture with my pinhole camera. It took about five minutes. You really don't have a choice with that camera, because it doesn't let a lot of light in. But the longer...

California.(Fern Cave at Lava Beds National Monument)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Fern Cave is part of Lava Beds National Monument, in northern California. When the lava stopped flowing through here, it created a kind of a tunnel called a lava tube. It's an incredible thing, because this is the desert. It's dry and...

Weaving the world.(wildlife in the Okefenokee Swamp)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... EVERY NIGHT THE SPIDERS WEAVE THE world back together. This morning I see webs whole again, shining freshly gossamer the new sun, webs we tore down last night accidentally, setting up the tent on the platform. All day paddling, we have been...

The flow of life.(Rogue River )(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... LAST WINTER I SPENT FOUR AND A HALF months in solitude in the Rogue River country of southwestern Oregon. The cabin where I lived, in a meadow surrounded by wilderness, was high above the Rogue on the north side of a steep, forested canyon, out...

Finding a time pool.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... IN SAPSUCKER WOODS THIS MORNING, sparkles beside a trail caught my eye, and I paused at a creek filled with combed-down strands of yellowed grass, over which water gently poured, encrusted by a top layer of woven ice crystals. Crossing it on a...

Glacier National Park.(hiking in Montana)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... I went to the park at the beginning of a trip I made to trace the Continental Divide from Montana to New Mexico. This picture was made in Montana, in August. I was about to celebrate my 40th birthday. We woke up very early one morning, knowing...

Yosemite.(photographing water in nature)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... I'm interested in the movements of water in nature, because we tend to forget about the power of nature, especially those of us who live in cities. I photograph a lot of bodies of water--oceans, lakes, rivers, waterfalls. I shot this one,...

The touch of the wild: at a family camp on a tiny island off the coast of Maine, a father and his sons return to nature and discover that some of its greatest lessons are those that heal the heart.
January 1, 2002... IT'S A LATE AUGUST DAY, JUST AFTER 10 A.M. THE SUN burns through wispy clouds, and the wind shifts from brisk to calm and back again, unbroken by the Gulf of Maine. I'm with my two boys, Casey and Jordy, 14 and 5, respectively, and a boatload...

Ask Audubon.
January 1, 2002... What happens when Komodos go head-to-head in combat? Madeline A. Coccio Pottstown, Pennsylvania AS AMERICANS LEARNED FROM last summer's Bronstein incident, in which newspaper editor Phil Bronstein (husband to actress Sharon Stone)...

A little night magic: want to improve the after-hours scene in your neighborhood? Try hanging a screech-owl box. (backyard).
January 1, 2002... NIGHT CREATURES GO LARGELY UNSEEN, SO people are often surprised to learn that they might have owls as neighbors. But it's true. Take screech-owls, for example. Over much of this continent, from southern Canada south into Mexico, they can be...

A sight for sensitive ears: a new generation of audio technology is opening up the wonders of birding to the visually impaired--and the sighted, too. (birds).
January 1, 2002... EARLY ON A BRIGHT JULY MORNING, ON A SLOPING HILL Washington State's Padilla Bay, Lloyd Demcoe is sitting up, attaching his headphones securely to his cap, checking his batteries, and emptying the half-dozen pockets of his homemade green apron....

Ohio. (State Of the States).(how birds and insects fly)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... A group of 350 fourth and fifth graders at Englewood Elementary School in Dayton are test-piloting a program that explores the relationship between modern aerodynamics and the flight mechanics of birds and insects. Through Birds, Flight, and...

Alaska. (State Of the States).(high schoolers in a high adventure)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Last July, Audubon Alaska helped two Homer high school juniors and a teacher enjoy the wildlife experience of a lifetime when the three were selected to participate in a six-day scientific expedition to the famed McNeil River Bear Sanctuary....

Key strategist. (Vanguard of the Volunteer).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... FROM HER HOME IN LARGO, Florida, Joyce King recalls first setting foot on nearby Shell Key to count birds a decade ago, when she was president of the St. Petersburg Audubon chapter. Long-legged wading species plied the barrier island's seagrass...

North Dakota. (State Of the States).(new nature center planned in Fargo)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Plans to build an Audubon center in Fargo coincide with those to advance Greenway on the Red, a joint project involving three states (North and South Dakota and Minnesota) and one province (Manitoba) that's designed to help curb damage from...

Centers of hope. (Special Report: Coping With Tragedy).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... AUDUBON SPRING CREEK PRAIRIE, Denton, Nebraska "WE HAD OUR PRAIRIE FESTIVAL AT SPRING Creek Prairie the Sunday after the disaster," says Marian Langan, education director. "We struggled with what to do and came up with something that...

2020 Vision.(nature centers to get closer to nature)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... By the year 2020, Audubon plans to establish a network of 1,000 nature centers nationwide, reaching one in four schoolchildren. This dynamic network of Audubon centers will help people of all ages and ethnicities forge a deep and personal bond...

Chapter News.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... The Houston Audubon Chapter has more than doubled the size of its Bolivar Flats Shorebird Sanctuary with the purchase of 615 acres at the mouth of Galveston Bay, in south Texas. This highly productive habitat, popular with crabbers and...

In memory.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
January 1, 2002... Audubon lost a member of its refuge family on September 11 when Richard Guadagno, 38, died in the crash of United Airlines Flight 93 in western Pennsylvania. Guadagno, who worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for 17 years, was also a...

One picture.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Photographer: Richard Misrach Title: Polaris Over Ak-Chin, 1.28.98-1.29.98, 9:03 P.M.-4:18 A.M. Camera: Deardorf 8x10 with 300mm lens Film: Kodak VPS negative color film, ISO100 Exposure: 7 hours, 15 minutes at f5.6 Back...