Audubon articles from May 1999

Audubon archives from May 1999

Catching the Wave.(seafood consumption)(Brief Article)(Column)
May 1, 1999... As the world's population approaches 6 billion, our consumption of seafood is rapidly exceeding the ability of fish stocks to reproduce. In 1995 commercial fishing fleets landed 84 million metric tons of fish--a five-fold increase in 50 years....

FIELD NOTES.(news and events concerning wildlife)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1999... Not Very Sporting Many bird hunters would like to bag more game with less effort. If a proposed change to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service regulations becomes law, they may get their wish. Hunters and commercial hunting clubs would be...

Saved by the Salmon?(Endangered Species Act)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1999... It may be the biggest hammer ever brought down in the 26 years of the Endangered Species Act. In March the federal government listed nine types of salmon as threatened or endangered, including the upper Columbia River spring-run chinook, whose...

Then There Were Six.(gray wolf population)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1999... First a camper shot and killed the wolf that biologists had tagged as #156, saying he thought it was a coyote threatening his family. Then a female went down. And then another, and another, and another newly released Mexican gray wolf fell...

Good News.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1999... Missing Lynx Located: For the first time in 25 years, signs of Canada lynx have been found in the Cascade Range of northern Oregon. The elusive wildcats were thought to have vanished because of loss of habitat and competition from other...

Bad News.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1999... Right Whales Left in the Lurch: So few North Atlantic right whales showed up in their calving grounds this year that researchers fear the endangered species is nearing extinction. This spring, only three mother-and-calf no more than five coast...

Pity the Pigeon.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1999... At a rally last winter at the gates of New York City's exclusive Gramercy Park, residents protested the application of Avitrol, a pesticide that controls pigeons by allegedly causing hallucinations in the few birds who happen to eat it. They,...

Scrambled Turtle Eggs.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1999... Ed Grace, a special agent with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, was shocked when he tallied up the numbers from his latest turtle-egg sting at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport. Within a two-week period, he had nabbed 12...

Ask AUDUBON.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1999... Is it true that Kansas and Tens actually have a hunting season on sandhill cranes? Are the birds good to eat? --Michael Teply, Omaha, Nobraska Living in Nebraska, where sand-hill-crane watching along the Platte River is practically a...

Falling Skies.(downburst storms)
May 1, 1999... Hell-bent winds that crash to earth--downbursts--can mow down huge swaths of trees like blades of grass and open the door for death and disease. A June evening hurtled toward dusk as I drove west into the teeth of a High Plains...

Streamborne Beauties.(mayflies on a fishing trip)
May 1, 1999... Delicate mayflies attract anglers to the trout stream and also provide food for fish and birds. As I stepped into a Vermont river near my home for a little trout fishing one recent morning, I saw a glittering ball of tiny wings 15 feet...

On the Track of Something Good.(studying animal habitat in Vermont)
May 1, 1999... Sue Morse has turned a private passion for wildlife into an effective conservation tool--while teaching others to do the same. A half-hour into my first Keeping Track class, Sue Morse maneuvered me into smelling a tree stump. Knees and...

THE ULTIMATE SURVIVOR.(coyotes)
May 1, 1999... Every year 400,000 coyotes are exterminated in the United States, yet the wily creature continues to flourish. I hope you kill a lot of coyotes." The local game warden pronounces the word kai-oats, the way it's said in most of the West. "I...

INSIDE THE HIDDEN KINGD0M.(Bhutan)
May 1, 1999... THE HIMALAYAS CUT THE LAPIS HORIZON LIKE THE MANDIBLE of the mountain gods. The Himalayas! I talked my way into the cockpit of our small jet to get a better look. "That is Everest," said our Bhutanese pilot. Like nearly everyone younger...

ALIEN INVASION.(alien weeds in the US)
May 1, 1999... They are quiet, patient, deadly, and insatiable. Alien weeds are stealing our land and killing our native plants. They're out there. They have traveled far to do their damage. Some are quite beautiful, which only adds to their threat....

BRINGING BACK the CHESAPEAKE.(Chesapeake Bay)
May 1, 1999... STRIPED BASS, CRABS, OYSTERS, AND MENHADEN ARE IN TROUBLE, BUT IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO RESCUE THE BAY. On August 18, 1997, Jim Price, a charter-boat captain turned diamond dealer, was fishing in Chesapeake Bay. He caught six striped bass that...

Breaking Out of the Box.(wood ducks and nest boxes)
May 1, 1999... Wood ducks like to nest in the woods. So why build them nest boxes over a marsh? Standing in the bow of our canoe, wildlife biologist Scott Smith snakes a lean arm under the foldout front of nest box Number 15 and withdraws a small, brown...

Gardening for Butterflies.(attracting butterflies)
May 1, 1999... You can provide a safe, pesticide-free haven that nourishes and protects these jewellike creatures. Butterflies have long fascinated me. When I was a child in southern California, three lantana bushes that flowered in various shades of...

The Condor's Shadow: The Loss and Recovery of Wildlife in America.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1999... The Condor's Shadow: The Loss and Recovery of wildlife in America By David S. Wilcove. W. H. Freeman, 288 pages, $24.95. David Wilcove has written a masterly ecological state-of-the-union message in time for millennial assessments of...

Brook Trout: A Thorough Look at North America's Great Native Trout--Its History, Biology, and Angling Possibilities.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1999... Brook Trout: A Though Looks at North American's Great Native Trout--Its History, Biology, and Angling Possibilities By Nick Karas. The Lyons Press, 371 pages, $35. Salvelinus fontinalis, the native brook trout familiar to anglers, is...

Waiting to Fly: My Escapades With the Penguins of Antarctica.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1999... Waiting to Fly: My Escapades With the Penguins of Antarctica By Ron Naveen. William Morrow, 374 pages, $26. There is no disputing Ron Naveen's passionate interest in penguins--he knows his stuff on chinstraps, gentoos, and Adelies--or...

The Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age.(Review)
May 1, 1999... The Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age By Richard Rudgley. The Free Press, 310 pages, $26. Man's physical and symbolic relationship to nature has its roots in the mysteries of Stone Age life. Richard Rudgley presents a fascinating...

The Run.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1999... The Run' By John Hay. Beacon Press, 164 pages, $23. Sometimes the best new books are reprints. This attractive edition of John Hay's 1959 Cape Cod classic should find a warm welcome. In a model of well-wrought prose, Hay observes the...

Wetlands for Wildlife.
May 1, 1999... Louisiana's steamy Atchafalaya Basin, fed by the Mississippi River, is the largest forested swampland in the United States. Huge cypress, tupelo, and oak trees provide a welcome refuge for exhausted birds on their migrations. The bayous are...

Save the Reach.
May 1, 1999... The Hanford Reach, a 51-mile stretch of the Columbia River in south-central Washington, was named America's Most Endangered River in 1998 by American Rivers, an organization devoted to the protection of these waterways. The greatest threat to...

Lessons on the Road.(students of the Audubon Expedition Institute)
May 1, 1999... I flip back the rockweeds to run my fingers along barnacles and mussels clinging to tide-worn stone. Determined to hold fast, these intertidal creatures offer a wisdom that I and 22 others are here to absorb as we traverse the rocky coast of...

IN BRIEF.(David Stokes honored as educator of the year and other stories)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1999... Educator of the Year Since 1972, David Stokes has used songs, stories, puppets, and live animals to teach people about nature's delicate web. Now his engaging, hands-on environmental programs have earned him the Educator of the Year Award...

Fish Kill Overkill.(terns targeted for hunting salmon)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1999... As the national Audubon Society's state representative in Oregon, Paul Engelmeyer wants to save wild salmon. He spends much of his time working to protect and restore salmon runs, so it's only natural he would notice things that harm their...

Rebel With a Conscience.
May 1, 1999... By the time Russell W. Peterson became president of the National Audubon Society, in 1979, he had ruffled the feathers of industry captains, powerful senators, and U.S. presidents. "I knew that you could face up to these forces and win if you...

New Releases.
May 1, 1999... Make Your Own Nature Center "Every community needs a nature center, just as it needs a school, church, and library," writes John Flicker, president of the National Audubon Society, in his review of How to Create and Nurture a Nature Center...

The Fish Eye.
May 1, 1999... David Doubilet may be the best-known of all undersea photographers. There are few world-class tropical waters where he hasn't worked his magic. ("I need to dive Fiji," he notes.) His perfectly composed, creatively lit images of unspoiled...