Audubon articles from September 2001

Audubon archives from September 2001

Editor's note.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
September 1, 2001... IN THIS ISSUE, AUDUBON HIGHLIGHTS A FAVORITE GEORGE BUSH OIL PATCH: the precious, pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. His expressed desire to drill there is contributing to some of the worst popularity ratings at this point in a...

Audubonview.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... DEAR AUDUBON MEMBER, PEOPLE OFTEN ASK ME WHAT DISTINGUISHES AUDUBON FROM OTHER conservation organizations. Our love for birds comes to mind, of course. But even more important, Audubon is uniquely committed to engaging people to protect...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
September 1, 2001... A Special Special Issue I WAS THRILLED TO RECEIVE THE Everglades issue [July-August], and I immediately read it from cover to cover. Thank you, Audubon, for recognizing all the complexities surrounding the Everglades and for printing the...

Wrong Turn for Wildlife.(Sequoia National Park)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... FOUNDED BY JOHN MUIR IN 1890, Sequoia National Park is famous for its towering, ancient trees and its majestic vistas. But as in so many other national parks, the past century has not been kind to Sequoia, which is beset by modern problems...

ECO-KNITTING.(protective clothing for animals)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... These sweaters are for the birds--literally. The Tasmanian Conservation Trust is using them to clothe the tiny fairy penguins that live on Phillip Island, off Australia's southern coast. The sweaters prevent the penguins--the victims of...

NO TRESPASSING.(endangered species law in Virgin, Utah)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... It's not easy being a bald eagle in Virgin, Utah. Several years ago the tiny town (population 350) passed a resolution that outlaws the designation of endangered species and wetlands within its limits. Washington County, where the town is...

THE BEE TEAM.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Because honeybees' legs collect pollutants as well as pollen from flowers, harmful chemicals in the surrounding environment are rapidly accumulated in the bees' hives. University of Montana biology professor Jerry Bromenshenk began making use...

BLOCKBUSTER BIRD GUIDE.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... DAVID ALLEN SIBLEY IS HAILED AS THE HEIR TO THE LEGENDARY BIRD illustrator Roger Tory Peterson. His book, The Sibley Guide to Birds, landed on the New York Times Best-Seller list after it was published last fall, and with more than 500,000...

RAT ATTACK.(birds of Anacapa Island)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... In 1853, at the height of the California Gold Rush, the steamship Winfield Scott ran aground off Anacapa Island, about 50 miles northwest of Los Angeles. The passengers and crew (and, of course, the gold) were soon rescued; at the same time, it...

Islands in the Sky.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... BY ANY STANDARD, THE SKY ISLAND Wildlands Network Conservation Plan is as audacious and far-reaching as they come. It would cover four major bioregions, span 17.3 million acres of the southwestern United States and Mexico, and rise 10,000 feet...

SEA URCHINS RIDE THE A TRAIN.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... It's hard to fathom the ecological value of dumping 400 of New York City's oldest subway cars into the Atlantic Ocean off Delaware's coast. But Nicholas DiPasquale, head of the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control,...

AXING THE BUDGET.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Medicare 11.5% Health 10.2% Income security 13.8% Social security 22.8% Other 13.7% Net interest 9.4% Natural resources & environment 1.3%...

Running on Empty.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... IN EARLY JULY IRATE FARMERS USED A DIAMOND-bladed chainsaw and a blowtorch to open up an irrigation canal in Klamath Falls, Oregon. Although the farmers were frustrated by a severe drought that has affected 200,000 acres of cropland--land that...

Taking Back the Halls.
September 1, 2001... Many schools use an arsenal of toxic pesticides to fight invading armies of roaches and rodents. Students in this Detroit battleground chose a healthier--and more effective--strategy. ON MARCH 7, 2000, FIVE CAFETERIA WORKERS AND A student...

Pointed Pencil.(cartoonist Tom Toles)
September 1, 2001... Cartoonist Tom Toles likes nothing more than skewering politicians--except drawing attention to environmental crises. From global warming to urban sprawl, Toles tackles them all, with humor and bite. THE DRAWING IS SO SIMPLE AS TO SEEM...

THE LAST GREAT WILDERNESS.
September 1, 2001... Most of us never see the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. So why shouldn't we drill for oil there? SUSAN McGRATH travels to "the biological heart of the refuge" to unlock the mystery of its astonishing fecundity, and its...

WINDY CITY WILDERNESS.(natural areas of Chicago)
September 1, 2001... In the shadows of Chicago's skyscrapers, a growing band of volunteers is taking back native prairie, weed by weed and seed by seed. ARMED WITH A FLASHLIGHT AND A TAPE RECORDER, SUE SULLIVAN SLOGS THROUGH A DENSE OAK-HICKORY FOREST, trying...

LAND BELOW THE WIND.(Borneo)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... The contestants from the "reality-based" series Survivor have come and gone. So, too, have the competitors in last year's Eco-Challenge race. But back in Borneo, the tropical-island setting for these escapades, real-life drama is featured every...

FAULTY TOWERS.
September 1, 2001... Your TV and cell-phone habits may be contributing to the deaths of millions of migratory birds a year in collisions with communications towers. A coalition of environmentalists, government scientists, and industry executives is finally taking...

ASK AUDUBON.(News Briefs)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Which has more biodiversity, a coral reef or an artificial reef? --Grant Wahlig, St. Louis, Missouri WHEN THEY BUILT THE FIRST recorded artificial reefs two centuries ago, the Japanese uncovered a secret of the seas: If you sink it,...

Marco Island and The Everglades.(Florida)
September 1, 2001... FEATURING NAPLES As the morning sun brightens over Florida's Gulf Coast, powdery sand beaches grow whiter, the emerald green of the water grows richer, and the lush colors of the tropical flowers deepen. A reeling symphony of bird sounds...

Rest Stops for the Weary.(behaviors of migrating birds)
September 1, 2001... When you've flown 600 miles without a break, a backyard full of native plants is a welcome sight indeed. IT ISN'T REALLY SPRING IN MY YARD UNTIL THE PALM warbles arrive. These pint-size songbirds with streaked breasts, bright olive rumps,...

Natural Fictions and Nonfictions.(four books about nature products)(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly By Sue Halpern. Pantheon, 213 pages, $23. THE MONARCH BUTTERFLY has become a focal point for equal measures of wonder and concern. The species' incredible...

Explore Wild Hawaii.
September 1, 2001... Oahu * Maui * Hawaii * Kauai * Molokai * Lanai Millions of years ago the 128-island archipelago we call Hawaii was thrust up from the ocean floor in a flurry of cataclysmic volcanic activity. Today, the Hawaiian islands are a paradise of...

Mr. (and Mrs.) Smith Go to Washington.(efforts of members of the National Audubon Society to promote family planning and prevent overpopulation)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... IN 1965, AS A FOURTH-YEAR MEDICAL STUDENT, BILL MYERS WROTE A PAPER ON POPULATION growth to satisfy a class assignment. Little did he suspect that his involvement with the issue was just beginning. Since then Myers and his wife, Joy, of...

TEXAS.(Sabal Palm Grove Sanctuary builds bridge to water palm trees)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Audubon Texas recently celebrated the opening of the 540-foot Wetland Bridge, part of the Sabal Palm Grove Sanctuary's Resaca Loop Trail. The completion of the bridge allowed a once-dry riverbed to be filled--mimicking natural water patterns...

CALIFORNIA.(grant for wetlands conservation)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Audubon California received a $1 million grant to rehabilitate wetlands in the southern San Joaquin Valley's Tulare Basin, an Important Bird Area. The grant is being administered under the North American Wetlands Conservation Act. A total of...

MONTANA.(Montana Audubon obtains protection for Owen Sowerwine Natural Area)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Working with the Flathead chapter, Montana Audubon recently secured continued protection for the Owen Sowerwine Natural Area, which is located outside Kalispell. The area, which sits at the confluence of the Stillwater and Flathead rivers,...

More than 60 Missouri artists donated work for auction to Ozark Rivers Audubon's Celebration of Missouri Art and Artists, which was held in July.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... More than 60 Missouri artists donated work for auction to Ozark Rivers Audubon's Celebration of Missouri Art and Artists, which was held in July. The proceeds will go toward a new Audubon center with a unique focus--combining nature and outdoor...

Seattle Audubon's Shade-Grown Coffee Campaign is gaining steam.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Seattle Audubon's Shade-Grown Coffee Campaign is gaining steam. Shade-grown coffee provides vital habitat for migratory birds on their journey through South and Central America. Forty-one companies have joined the program by agreeing to carry...

Reaching Out.(management of the Maryland-DC Audubon)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... IT WAS A WARM AFTERNOON AT PICKERING Creek Audubon Center, and Gia Ristvey, director of education, was hanging out on the center's dock with a pair of middle schoolers from a local juvenile facility. Fishing was the official purpose of the...

(one picture).('Ansel Adams at 100')(Review)
September 1, 2001... ANSEL ADAMS PHOTOGRAPHS, THE NOVELIST WALLACE STEGNER WROTE SOME YEARS AGO, are "so plainly stamped with his personal artistry that they hardly need his steeple-A signature on them." Few connoisseurs of photography as fine art would disagree,...