Audubon articles from September 1997

Audubon archives from September 1997

Let sugar sweeten the Everglades. (funds from auctioning off sugar rights could be used for environmental cleanup)(Editorial)
September 1, 1997... The National Audubon Society recently joined a group of conservation, business, and civic leaders in calling on President Bill Clinton to enact our proposal for a sugar-quota auction. This innovative plan could raise more than $100 million a...

A shipmaker's legacy. (meadows of Pennellville, Maine)
September 1, 1997... More than 10,000 years ago, great glaciers scoured the Maine coast. As the ice lumbered into the sea, it displaced marine clay and spread it thickly along the shore-a gob of - darkness from an ancient deep, a foundation for what would one day...

Not in my backyard. (wildlife in suburban areas)
September 1, 1997... The village of North Haven occupies a 2.5-square-mile peninsula that lies some 200 yards across the water from Sag Harbor, where I live, and is connected to the South Fork of Long Island, New York, by a spit of sand. Except for that spit of...

Flying colors. (hummingbirds)
September 1, 1997... Darting among flowers, hovering on invisible wings, flashing iridescent emerald -- a hummingbird, and the feeling, one might say, is mutual. As larger animals have retreated before the spread of civilization, many of these nectar feeders have...

The return of an American classic: decades after a devastating disease began its transcontinental march, new hope takes root for the American elm.
September 1, 1997... Denny Townsend misses the symbolism of the moment when a robin, which has been minding the eggs in its nest, bursts from the New Harmony elm tree at the US. Department of Agriculture (USDA) research facility in Glenn Dale, Maryland. Actually,...

Swimming with trouble: wild dolphins are being treated like cheerful, harmless pets - but they're not Flipper.
September 1, 1997... In warm Weather, Dozens of boaters 'am St. Andrew B where it abuts the Gulf of Mexico, near Panama City Beach, Florida. They haven't come for the sun, surf, or fishing but for a dolphin encounter: to feed and even swim with wild bottle-nosed...

Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature.
September 1, 1997... When Rachel Carson died of cancer in April 1964, she was 57 years old. Her four books -- Under the Sea-Wind (1941), The Sea Around Us (1951), The Edge of the Sea (1955), and especially, Silent Spring (1962) -- had made her one of the most...

Heart and Blood: Living with Deer in America.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1997... I can think of no one better suited to make a defense of hunting than Richard Nelson, who was apprenticed in his early twenties to Inupiaq Eskimo hunters on the Arctic Coast of Alaska and who lived for several years with the Koyukon Indians in...

A Wilderness Within: The Life of Sigurd F. Olson.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1997... For many people, Sigurd Olson epitomizes call of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, the canoeist's paradise that lies atop the state of Minnesota. Olson's books, especially The Singing Wilderness, (1956) and Listening Point (1958), evoke a kind...

Fishcamp: Life on an Alaskan Shore.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1997... During the summer Nancy Lord and her partner, Ken, live along the west side of Cook Inlet in Alaska, where they fish commercially for sockeye salmon -- their "money fish." They have a beach cabin, a couple of boats, and a stack of nets in need...

The Raptor and the Lamb: Predators and Prey in the Living World.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1997... Predation is one of the fundamental forces driving the economy of life on earth, and as Christopher McGowan points out, humans are fascinated by it -- perhaps because our own predations have grown so oblique, so bureaucratic, so impersonal....

The Platypus and the Mermaid, and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1997... Whether it wanted to or not, Victorian England presided over an explosive increase in the rate of discovery of new species. By the late 19th century "more than one thousand new genera of animals of all kinds were being described each year,"...

Refuge on the horizon. (creation of the Waccamaw National Wildlife Refuge in South Carolina)(Audubon in Action)
September 1, 1997... On the coast of South Carolina, just 15 miles from Myrtle Beach, blackwater rivers move easily below tangled tupelo and cypress trees in one of the least developed wetland areas in the country. The Waccamaw Audubon Society and other groups...

Making a difference: Pat Durkin. (Audubon Society member helps create an urban wilderness refuge)
September 1, 1997... Drive through downtown Washington, D.C., past blocky government buildings and side streets littered with boarded-up houses, to Logan Circle, and you might find Pat Durkin out looking for butterflies amid the wildflowers. Logan Meadow, a fifth...

The worth of the earth. (estimating the economic value of the environment)(Column)
September 1, 1997... For years Gaylord Nelson, former U.S. senator from Wisconsin and the father of Earth Day, has been saying that we cant continue to live off our capital and expect civilization as we know it to survive. As with others who have made this...

Marco Island & the Everglades. (includes related articles and travel information)(Special Advertising Section)
September 1, 1997... Marco Island sits in the Gulf of Mexico at the western border to the Everglades like a sculptured garden at the entrance to a nature trail. The largest of the Florida Gulf Coast's "Ten Thousand Islands," Marco is a resort area of white powder...