National Wildlife articles from April 1996

National Wildlife archives from April 1996

Eight bright ideas that have powered NWF through six decades. (National Wildlife Federation)
April 1, 1996... Forty-five years ago, NWF adopted a resolution stating that the organization should to the defense of any species that is in any way endangered as to its existence" 1 The wildlife lobby was there all along: As America was struggling to emerge...

Capitol games. (environmental policies of the 104th Congress)
April 1, 1996... How Congress is using sneaky tactics to weaken the nation's environmental protections During the late 1980s, when a series of unexplained illnesses felled livestock on Sue Pope's ranch in Midlothian, Texas, no one made a connection to the...

Caring about Alaska: Who does? And why?
April 1, 1996... If a tree falls in our forty-ninth state, and no one is there to see it, a lot of people seem to think they'll hear it anyway WOLVES!" The word sent a shiver through the passengers on the full bus traveling down Denali National Park's single...

Finding a future for an endangered bird. (protecting the red-cockaded woodpecker)
April 1, 1996... An innovative program is putting private landowners on the side of the red-cockaded woodpecker The operation at Eglin Air Force Base in the Florida Panhandle is reminiscent of the opening scene from the late 1970s Vietnam War movie Apocalypse...

NWF's Campus Ecology programs: the greening of higher ed. (National Wildlife Federation)
April 1, 1996... In a 1989 NWF survey, a whopping 94 percent of college students said they believed they could make a difference in environmental protection; 80 percent said they could do more if only they were better informed. Out of this interest was born...

NWF prospered during the Jay Hair years. (achievements of former National Wildlife Federation president Jay Hair)
April 1, 1996... While Dr. Jay D. Hair was President, 1981-1995, NWF grew in conservation leadership and program muscle Reaching out to the corporate community for an expanded and positive dialog with business leaders was one of Jay Hair's first major...

For backyard biodiversity, try pollinating your yard.
April 1, 1996... Thanks to plentiful pollen in the air, spring is the season to be sneezing for many of us. But needless to say, those annoying pollen grains have a higher purpose than spawning miserable masses of runny-nosed people. Transported by wind or...

Linking people with nature. (National Wildlife Federation's NatureLink program)
April 1, 1996... On the shore of a wooded Georgia pond, a young boy from urban Atlanta squeals in delight as a tugging bluegill makes the line sing off his fishing reel for the first time in his life. On a moonless Pennsylvania night, several families from...

Godmother of natural landscaping. (naturalist Lorrie Otto)
April 1, 1996... HERE'S A QUIZ: What four-letter noun is a "sheared, poisoned, monotonous, sterile landscape," created by human acts that are "immoral," "evil" and "flagrantly wasteful of drinking water and our non-renewable resources?" Hint: You won't find that...

How flowers changed the world.
April 1, 1996... An acclaimed anthropologist explains why our planet would be an entirely different place today without flowering plants Once upon a time there were no flowers at all. A little while ago - about one hundred million years, as the geologist...