Audubon articles from March 1998

Audubon archives from March 1998

Protest the forest, not the cut.(US Forest Service - laudable proposal to stop building new loggin roads in national forests)(Editorial)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1998... Nearly three decades ago, with Vietnam and Nixon on my mind and a love of the wild in my heart, I headed west to Colorado. A few friends and I pitched camp in a remote; unlogged area of the Routt National Forest, and there we stayed for the...

Building diversity at Audubon.(CSX Corp./Audubon Society/United Negro College Fund $1.5-million scholarship program)(The Audubon View)(Column)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1998... I am pleased to report that the National Audubon Society has just formed an unprecedented partnership to train talented minority students for careers in the environment and in transportation. The CSX Scholars Program is being funded for its...

Souring on cranberries.(wetland conservationists in Wisconsin vs. expanding cranberry industry)(Reports)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1998... Cranberries have moved beyond the sauce of Thanksgiving tables and into juices, muffins, Craisins, and a host of other tart treats. But as growers in Wisconsin--which produces more of the berries than any other state--work to meet the rising...

The persistent parasite.(Sterile Male Release Technique effective on St. Mary's River vs. Atlantic sea lampreys in Great Lakes)(Reports)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1998... In 1921 the first Atlantic sea lamprey was found in the Great Lakes. Thought to have invaded through the Erie Canal system, the eellike, 20-inch-long parasite has been controlled in most of its spawning streams by chemicals, barriers, and traps....

Hammocks get a rest.(Florida to purchase, preserve hardwood hammock tropical forests important to saving white-crowned pigeon from extinction)(Reports)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1998... At the end of 1997, conservationists in the Florida Keys received good news. A state project to purchase and preserve important tropical forests--known as hardwood hammocks--had once again been ranked high on Florida's land-acquisition list....

No end to the slaughter.(Yellowstone National Park bison under fire - brucellosis fears)(Reports)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1998... Last year 1,100 bison--almost a third of the population at Yellowstone National Park--were either shot or shipped to slaughter when they crossed the park boundary, in an attempt by Montana officials to prevent the animals from passing a...

An unlikely friend of forests.(GOP Rep. Jim Leach supports 'zero cut' national forestry policy)(Reports)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1998... By Washington Standards, Representative Jim Leach--an 11-term veteran from Iowa--is an atypical mix of power and principle. As chairman of the House banking committee for the past four years, for example, the Republican is well positioned to rake...

Dancing on the stones.(Rio Grande Gorge, NM)(A Sense Of Place)(Column)
March 1, 1998... In the Rio Grande Gorge an incorrigible rockhopper exults in the smell of sage, the song of the wren, and the rush of the river. I have never been to the Grand Canyon; I fear it's much too crowded. I'm told the Snake River is fabulous, but...

A fragile kingdom.(monarch butterly migration to Mexico)(Cover Story)
March 1, 1998... The monarch's 2,000-mile migration ranks among North America's great wonders. But is there enough common ground left in Mexico to assure it a place to land? Late last October visitors to Monarch Watch, the university Internet site that tracks...

Keepers of the seals.(Aleuts of Alaska's Pribilof Islands; northern fur seals)
March 1, 1998... The Aleuts of Alaska's Pribilof Islands are finding that safeguarding their past--and the northern fur seal--may be the key to the future. It takes three teenagers to hold down the struggling seal. Using noose poles and a restraining board to...

Warming up to Kyoto.(Dec. '97 Kyoto, Japan global warming conference)(Cover Story)
March 1, 1998... It was a forum for U.S. intransigence, but December's global-warming summit in Japan began to define the necessary limits of the human enterprise. Perhaps the most famous spot in all of Kyoto's 1,800 shrines and temples is the Zen rock...

Of moose and men.(New Hampshire's burgeoning moose herds)
March 1, 1998... Thoreau called moose "grotesque and awkward to look at." But as these ruminants rebound in the North Woods, people are getting used to them. Atypical summer evening in Moose Alley: From the top of a hill in northern New Hampshire, U.S. 3...

From wilderness to Wal-Mart: with the spring runoff, Pattee Creek follows a route from the mountains right to the dentist's back door.(Montana stream's journey from mountains, through a town, and into the Bitterroot River)
March 1, 1998... With the spring runoff, Pattee Creek follows a route from the mountains right to the dentist's back door. Near my house, in a small city in Montana, is a creek called Pattee Creek. I pass by it often, on my way to the supermarket or the...

Spoil of the Laguna Madre.(Texas coast dredging)
March 1, 1998... On the Texas coast, dredging clouds the future of one of the world's great estuaries. The ducks are so thick that Their flapping boils the surface of the Laguna Madre. They are redheads, Walt Kittelberger tells me as they flee our...

Desert solitary: it is our greatest stretch of the Sonoran Desert, and the struggle for its future has begun. One last trek through the Cabeza Prieta.(Arizona)(True Nature)
March 1, 1998... It is our greatest stretch of Sonoran Desert, and the struggle for its future has Begun. One last trek through the Cabeza Prieta. I shoulder the big backpack, heavy with three gallon canteens tied to the frame. It is approaching sunset in...

Vestal Fire: An Environmental History, Told Through Fire, of Europe and Europe's Encounter with the World.
March 1, 1998... Vestal Fire: An Environmental History, Told Through Fire, of Europe and Europe's Encounter with the World By Stephen J. Pyne. University of Washington Press, 659 pages, $34.95. It is slowly becoming apparent how profoundly humans have shaped...

Beauty of Another Order: Photography in Science.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1998... The art at the heart of scientific inquiry is the subject of Beauty of Another Order: Photography in Science (Yale University Press, $50). The book traces the history of imaging in science, from 16th-century woodcuts to photos of the stars taken...

Salamander sanctuary.(Audubon In Action)(Massachusetts)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1998... Across Massachusetts the first steady rains of spring herald an amazing migration: Swarms of salamanders--among them spotted, blue-spotted, and Jefferson salamanders--emerge from their burrows and move to temporary lowland ponds called vernal...

Making a difference: Keith and Mary Blackmore.(leaders of Northwest Illinois Audubon Society)(Column)(Brief Article)(Interview)
March 1, 1998... The sound of chirping grasshoppers fills the air as Keith and Mary Blackmore walk through one of their creations: a prairie bursting with colorful splashes of blooming native bergamot and yellow coneflowers nestled among rust-colored grasses....

Big tent, big camel: the spirit of compromise has taken battle-worn environmentalists by storm. So just what on earth were we fighting for?(P.S.)(consensus politics vs. environmental protection)(Column)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1998... The spirit of compromise has taken battle-worn environmentalists by storm. So just what on earth were we fighting for? Not so long ago, the term centrist was a political cussword, the description of a person or position without moral...