Audubon articles from November 1997

Audubon archives from November 1997

Florida Keys & Key West: the islands you can drive to. (travel and tourism) (special advertising section)
November 1, 1997... Among their many attractions, the Florida Keys and Key West's most unique attribute is that they are a collection of islands--yet are completely accessible by car. Furthermore, heading either south or north on the Overseas Highway between Key...

A journal of the heart. (describing the Colorado Rocky Mountains)
November 1, 1997... One of my housewifely duties at our Colorado mountain place is to clean out the old cabin and make it livable for arriving guests. On this summer morning I take a break from my chores and gaze out the window at the aspen grove that cossets the...

Whittling Dixie. (deforestation in the Southern United States)
November 1, 1997... Highly automated "supermills" are devouring vast tracts of hardwoods, as a kind of forestry slices through the Southland. From 1,000 feet above eastern Tennessee, a thin blue haze lies like a cataract over the green of the Cumberland Plateau...

Making the west safe for grizzlies. (reintroducing grizzly bears in Idaho and Montana)
November 1, 1997... I stepped through the timber to the edge of the meadow. Beyond lay rolling hills, across a small flat with a thin finger of pines running off to my right. Two ravens exploded from the knee-high sagebrush. I froze and scented the air, detecting...

The owling. (Canadian owls in Minnesota during winter 1996-1997)(Cover Story)
November 1, 1997... A cross a broad swath of North America, the winter of 1996-97 was a good time to stay indoors. To the west and north of the Great Lakes, across several states and provinces, bitter cold and extreme snowfall headlined the season; nearly half...

A man for all seasons. (lessons fathers teach their sons about nature)
November 1, 1997... IN AUTUMN, WHAT SHOULD A SON SAY TO A FATHER WHO HAS SHOWN HIM THE SECRETS OF NATURE? I live in a small house in Taos, New Mexico. From my kitchen doorway I look across a narrow strip of garden to a storage shed where I keep many books and...

Alaska: the oil pressure rises. (oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge)
November 1, 1997... If you've never heard of the National Petroleum Reserve, you're not alone. Most people have no idea it even exists. Oil executives, however, are not among them. Spring comes reluctantly to the Colville River delta. Here on the shores of the...

Fading promise. (displaced population of Land Between the Lakes on the Kentucky-Tennessee border)
November 1, 1997... Thirty years ago, 900 families were driven from the Land Between the Lakes. They haven't gone far--and they haven't forgotten. As we drive south through, the Land Between the Lakes, pink-purple boughs of redbud haze the leafless forest, a...

Before the Beginning: Our Universe and Others. (book)
November 1, 1997... A Cosmic View of Evolution Nature," wrote the great 19th-century naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, "reveals itself to the simple mind and feelings of man as something earthly, and closely allied to himself. It is only within the...

Setting sights on the reach. (Columbia River's Hanford Reach nuclear pollution)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... Standing on the deck of a tour boat in August, Washington governor Gary Locke (D) listens to a geologist explain the massive landslide stretching before them in the 51-mile stretch of the Columbia River known as the Hanford Reach. Here in the...

Making a difference. (Dennis Olle working for Key Biscayne National Park)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... DENNIS OLLE In the summer of 1992, the Tropical Audubon Society considered repairing the roof of its headquarters, a historic wooden house in South Miami. Let's wait until after hurricane season, suggested the chapter's new president,...

Natural attractions of the Caribbean, Central America, and South America. (special advertising section)
November 1, 1997... "It's the beach, stupid." That might well be the predictable answer to "Why the Caribbean?" But the Caribbean is too complex to be reduced to a simplistic answer. Granted, Columbus gushed like a first-time tourist in describing the...

Halfway protection. (oil drilling in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1997... Even when we try to preserve our wild country, we just can't seem to leave it alone. The sad reality about American conservation, borne out repeatedly, is our inability to carry through with our good intentions--our lack of resolve to fully...