Audubon articles from July 2001

Audubon archives from July 2001

Editor's note.(special issue on The Everglades)(Editorial)
July 1, 2001... IF A MAGAZINE DECIDES TO DEVOTE AN ENTIRE ISSUE TO A SINGLE TOPIC, that topic had better be a big one. At Audubon, there are a multitude of pressing environmental concerns competing for attention, though few merit a "special issue." The...

(audubon view).(Audubon magazine)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... DEAR AUDUBON MEMBER: "THERE ARE NO OTHER EVERGLADES IN THE WORLD," WROTE MARJORY Stoneman Douglas in her eloquent book The Everglades: River of Grass. With those simple words, she framed one of the most vital conservation challenges...

(letters).(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2001... Sheer Madness ABOUT A WEEK BEFORE I RECEIVED your May-June issue and read the fine article by Ted Williams [Incite, "Mountain Madness"], Chief District Judge Charles Haden's ruling was overturned by the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of...

Long Lines, Short Lives.(commercial fishing and sea birds mortality)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... UNFORTUNATELY, TARGET FISH LIKE COD and halibut aren't the only take for Pacific fishing boats, which typically trail line with baited hooks through prime fishing grounds. Attracted by the bait and offal thrown overboard, seabirds, too, attempt...

THE ONLY GOOD BEAR IS A LIVE BEAR.(endangered species)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Since the 1950s black bears have been rarer in Texas than bona fide liberals. But now the federally threatened species is showing signs of making a comeback in the eastern part of the state, thanks to migrant bears from neighboring states....

ORGANIC FARMING IS FOR THE BIRDS.(environmental benefits of organic farming)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Following an exhaustive review of published research, England's Soil Association has found considerable evidence that organic farming increases biodiversity. According to the report, organically cultivated fields contain five times as many wild...

COWS GET CANNED.(grazing permit for cows on property owned by Anheuser-Busch are revoked by the US Forest Service)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Whassup?! For one thing, there will be no more grazing in California's Inyo National Forest for hundreds of cows owned by the Anheuser-Busch Companies. In February the U.S. Forest Service decided to ban the cows after an environmental report...

Where the Wild Things Are.(debates and stalling over creation of wilderness areas)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... "THE CREATION OF NEW WILDERNESS IN the full sense of the word is impossible," observed Aldo Leopold. Surely Congress agreed when it passed the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, which required the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to...

SUNSCREEN FOR BIRDS.(environmental effects of steel sculpture)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Over the years a multitude of pigeon-control plans, ranging from the creative to the devious, have been devised for public places all over the world. But no one involved in a massive outdoor art project in Nottingham, England, expected things...

Road Rules.(ways to lessen the environmental damage caused by roads)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... LAST NOVEMBER OCELOT M-192 DIED ON a South Texas highway in an ill-fated attempt to cross the road. A month later a second ocelot met the same end. That's a huge loss for this highly endangered species, which numbers only 50 to 100 as it is. It...

THREE CHEERS FOR CONSERVATION.(University of Missouri-Columbia raises money for tiger conservation)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Truman the Tiger is not your average college mascot. Although he cheers on the team at the University of Missouri-Columbia, he also cheers on all tigers in the wild, thanks to the university's Mizzou Tigers for Tigers conservation program. The...

Sprawling Bellies.(how urban sprawl contributes to increase in number of overweight persons)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... FIRST IT TOOK OVER THE FARMS AND forests. Then it raised tempers on clogged highways. Now it seems that sprawl--that slouching monster made of tract houses and strip malls--is also expanding waistlines. That's right: The landscape is making...

ZONING OUT.(condition of the ozone hole may be improving; how global warming affects the ozone layer)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Luckily, the ozone hole is not really located above North America--we've just positioned it that way to provide a sense of scale. Thanks to international agreements that limit the production of ozone-destroying substances, some scientists...

Forgotten Islands.(efforts to learn about the islands of the Everglades before they disappear)
July 1, 2001... Scientists are racing to learn as much as they can about these hot spots of biodiversity in the Florida Everglades--before it's too late. "I HATE IT WHEN I SINK," SAYS DEBRA WILLARD, A paleocologist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)....

A Fork in the River.(biology of part of the North Fork of the New River in South Florida)
July 1, 2001... South Florida's watery path less traveled reveals a rare bit of Old Everglades--and its overlooked urban community. Finally, there's a plan to revive both. AUDREY PETERMAN CAN'T HELP HERSELF. THE INVOLuntary yelps come with each new...

A new day dawns in the EVERGLADES.
July 1, 2001... EVERY LAND HAS A STORY TO TELL. THE BEST STORIES OF WILD NATURE -- the ones we treasure the most are those of endurance, those in which the canyons and rivers and forests pulse with their innate uniqueness. But what we like best about these...

Forever Glades.(history of the Everglades)
July 1, 2001... Ebbs and flows of the Great American Wetland 128,000 years ago: The last interglacial warming period begins. South Florida is covered by a warm, tropical lagoon in which the coastal ridge and much of the limestone bedrock of the southern...

ANATOMY OF A DEAL.(planned $7.8 billion restoration of the Everglades)
July 1, 2001... The epic battle to save the Everglades has pitted conservationists against developers, environmentalists against the sugar industry, and city dwellers against farmers. But in the end, friends and foes have rallied behind the $7.8 billion...

REVIVING THE RIVER OF GRASS.(restoration of the Everglades)
July 1, 2001... For a century people have diked, drained, and diverted the Everglades' water. Now, after a decade of scientific planning and political haggling, what may be the biggest and most dramatic ecological rescue in history is under way. But in the...

Go With the Flow.(analysis of water flow of the Everglades and plans to restore the region)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... THE MAPS ON THESE PAGES REPRESENT BOTH THE NATURAL AND HUMAN-INDUCED WATER FLOWS OF THE EVERGLADES. The smaller maps at the top of the page document the historical water flow (left), the flow following a half-century of water-supply and...

Good news, bad news.(effects of the plan to restore the Everglades)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... There is little doubt that the Everglades restoration plan will ultimately improve living conditions for dozens of imperiled species ill South Florida. But overall, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the plan represents a mixed...

GLIDING THROUGH THE GLADES.(Everglades)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... SHORTLY BEFORE DAWN I SET OUT, HEADING WEST DOWN A WOODLAND TRAIL. Within moments, the pine forest fills with birdsong and the first light of day. This is Everglades National Park, and I am not exploring on foot. I'm riding a bike. [paragraph]...

Blueprint for the future.(efforts to preserve Everglades may lead to restoration of other wetland areas)
July 1, 2001... Perhaps the greatest promise of the Everglades restoration is that it will serve as a road map for the rescue of other battered ecosystems across the United States. PROGRESS IN THE BATTLE TO RESTORE ecological health to the great River of...

PADDLING A WATERY WILDERNESS.(canoeing through the Everglades)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... THE SUN IS BRIGHT AND WARM, AND I'M FLOATING IN MY CANOE A FEW HOURS into the first of eight blissful days on the Everglades' Wilderness Waterway. Two voracious mosquitoes are filling up on my left forearm, but when I think about the cold, gray...

the Players.
July 1, 2001... For almost half a century a plan to fix the Everglades proved as elusive as a Florida panther. But during the past decade, hundreds of dedicated individuals have worked successfully to find common ground. In the following pages, we present a...

TREKKING TROPICAL TRAILS.(Big Cypress National Preserve)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... JUST BEYOND THE NORTHERN BOUNDARY OF EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK LIES A vast, primordial swamp of dwarf pond cypresses and slash pine islands, of hardwood hammocks and wet prairies, of sawgrass marshes and mangrove forests. Here, in Big Cypress...

A Wing a Prayer.
July 1, 2001... The roseate spoonbill is barely hanging on in Florida Bay And the biologist who knows it best is fighting for its survival. THE ROSEATE SPOONBILL INVITES RHAPSODY of study. "Rosy pink, with wing coverts of deeper carmine," an early...

STATE OF THE STATES.(environmental actions in Alaska, Connecticut and New Mexico)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... ALASKA As long as the Bush administration continues to propose oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Audubon Alaska will make protecting the refuge its top advocacy priority. John Schoen, a senior scientist with Audubon...

Q & A Browner On Board.(Brief Article)(Interview)
July 1, 2001... CAROL BROWNER LEFT THE ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency in January as its longest-serving chief ever. Her current work on behalf of the environment includes a seat on the Audubon board of directors. She recently talked to Audubon in Washington,...

MAKING IT RIGHT IN MISSISSIPPI.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... THE BREAKTHROUGH CAME FROM THE brush pile. As Jim Nolan tells it, he was sitting with some local birdwatchers in the sunroom at the new Strawberry Plains Audubon Center, a few miles north of Holly Springs, Mississippi. Nolan, the center's...

NATIONAL PROGRAMS.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... LICENSING REI and Audubon have teamed up to go back to school in support of environmental education. From July 25 through August 23, every full-price REI daypack purchased at an REI store or online will mean a $5 donation to Audubon's...

What you can do.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Everglades restoration is far from a done deal. Each year, for the next two decades, the U.S. government and the state of Florida must allocate funds to keep the $7.8 billion, 38-year project going. Let your government representatives know that...

one picture.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... THE APTLY NAMED GHOST ORCHID (POLYRADICION LINDENII) HAS THE UNUSUAL DISTINCTION of being one of the rarest and most elusive plants in the Florida Everglades as well as the centerpiece of a best-selling book about floral beauty and obsession....