Audubon articles from July 1998

Audubon archives from July 1998

Make room for wildlife.(private landowners provide resting and feeding spots for birds)(Editorial)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... This nation's system of parks and other protected lands is the envy of the world. But most of our wildlife depends at least in part on habitat that is privately owned. This is particularly true of birds, which may migrate thousands of miles...

A peninsula in the Pacific.(visiting the Point Reyes National Seashore)(includes related map and travel log)
July 1, 1998... Imagine a garden that has mountains and estuaries and great rolling plains of grass; long empty beaches; vertiginous sea cliffs; bobcats and tule elk and mountain lions and the United States' southernmost colony of mountain beavers; sea lions...

Homegrown wetlands: for less than $250 you can construct an ornamental water garden that will also serve as a magnet for a variety of wildlife.(includes list of companies that sell water gardens by mail)
July 1, 1998... For less than $250 you can construct an ornamental water garden that will also serve as a magnet for a variety of wildlife. It wasn't easy taking that first jab with the shovel; I value my lawn. But I wanted a water garden in my North...

The greening of America: environmental impact of golf courses.(includes environmental evaluations of nine golf courses)
July 1, 1998... More than 700 new golf courses will open this year, paving this country with manicured grasses. The question is: How green are these greens? At the bottom of a narrow alpine valley, shadowed by a crown of jagged Rocky Mountain peaks, flows...

Oceanfront battlefront: beach erosion.
July 1, 1998... EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES ARE BEING TAKEN TO KEEP OUR BEACHES, HOMES, AND COASTAL TOWNS FROM BEING SWALLOWED BY THE SEA. BUT HOW FAR SHOULD WE GO? AND WHO SHOULD PAY? On a brilliant, sunny spring day on the New Jersey shore, the wind is...

The end of the roads?: wilderness replaced by pavement.(includes comparative list of the 10 largest roadless areas in the US from 1936 and 1992)
July 1, 1998... THE NATION IS LOSING MUCH OF ITS PRISTINE WILDERNESS TO PAVEMENT AND GRAVEL--ALMOST AS FAST AS SCIENTISTS ARE FINDING NEW EVIDENCE THAT ROADS DESTROY WILDLIFE AND WATERSHEDS. Mark Skatrud dug his snowshoes into the side of the hill and...

Yellowstone reborn.(includes map of total area affected by Yellowstone National Park fires)
July 1, 1998... Ten years ago, wildfires raged across Yellowstone National Park, and the nation debated the wisdom of the Park Service's "natural fire" policy. Today Yellowstone rises from its ashes: alive, well, and in many places, thriving. The summer of...

A population reinstated.(conservation of whooping cranes in central Florida)
July 1, 1998... Establishing a new population of whooping cranes in central Florida improves the prospects for the birds' long-term survival. On a cloudy night in March of this year, four trucks belonging to the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission...

Baseball is for the birds.(includes map of baseball stadiums suited to birdwatching)
July 1, 1998... If you know when and where to look, you'll find that home runs aren't the only interesting things flying out of ballparks. Fenway Park, the baseball park I visit most often, sits close to the Charles River, which empties into nearby Boston...

Life in the Balance: Humanity and the Biodiversity Crisis.
July 1, 1998... Life in the Balance: Humanity and the Biodiversity Crisis By Niles Eldredge. Princeton University Press, 224 pages, $24.95 The word biodiversity is little more than a decade old, but its rapidly growing currency marks a tidal shift in human...

Reading the Mountains of Home.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... Reading the Mountains of Home By John Elder, Harvard University Press, 253 pages, $22.95. There is a curiously double pull in most literary nature writing. You can feel the writer's desire to capture a presence that lies well beyond language,...

The Raptors of Arizona.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... Edited by Richard L. Glinski; illustrations by Richard Sloan. University of Arizona Press, 220 pages, $75. This beautiful book will appeal to anyone who loves raptors or bird paintings, whether you live in Arizona or not. It is a comprehensive,...

Wind: How the Flow of Air Has Shaped Life, Myth, and the Land.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... Wind: How the Flow of Air Has Shaped Life, Myth, and the Land By Jan DeBlieu. Houghton Mifflin, 320 pages, $24. Jan DeBlieu lives on North Carolina's Outer Banks, where the year is a feast of wind. Living at the land's edge has heightened her...