National Wildlife articles from April 2000

National Wildlife archives from April 2000

Enduring Love Affairs With the Natural World.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
April 1, 2000... As Cynthia Berger puts it, "My relationship with warblers goes back a long way." Twenty-two years ago, while attending college, the New York writer worked for a Dartmouth ornithologist studying the birds' foraging habits in a New Hampshire...

Congress Poised for Action To Restore Florida Everglades.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Declaring that the time is ripe for action, NWF and one of its affiliates, the Florida Wildlife Federation, are leading a nationwide campaign to mobilize public and congressional support for restoring the Everglades. NWF is preparing a...

NWF, Dole Foods Unite in Consumer Sweepstakes.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... This spring NWF is joining with Dole Foods in a national consumer promotion designed to raise awareness of NWF's conservation work and at the same time raise revenues to support its programs. The promotion is being publicized in the coupon...

Recovery Zone For Grizzly Bears Needs Widening.(Yellowstone National Park)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Concerned about the gradual erosion of Yellowstone grizzly habitat because of human activities, NWF is calling on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the bears' habitat on public lands beyond the current recovery zone. In...

Second Vermont Frog Study Shows High Rate of Stress.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... There's clearly trouble in the frog pond, according to the second phase of a study of Vermont's frogs by NWF's Northeast Natural Resource Center. The latest research focused on agricultural ponds, golf courses and storm-water runoff sites,...

NWF Backs Right To Save Public Lands From Grazing Abuse.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... In a case now before the U.S. Supreme Court, NWF has joined with several other national environmental organizations to defend the federal government's right to protect public lands from abusive livestock grazing. NWF and the other groups...

North Carolina Adopts New Strategy For Flood Control.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... The state hardest hit by Hurricane Floyd is adopting on a massive scale an approach long advocated by NWF to reduce flood damage. North Carolina plans to buy out as many as 11,000 homes and businesses in the 100-year floodplain that were...

Wolves Can Stay In Yellowstone, Appeals Court Rules.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... A federal appeals court has in effect ripped up an eviction notice for reintroduced wolves in Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver reversed a lower court ruling that the wolf...

NWF Spotlights Alaska's Magnificent Copper River Delta.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... NWF has stepped up its campaign to persuade the U.S. Forest Service to declare Alaska's 700,000-acre Copper River Delta a wilderness area to protect it from encroaching development. The largest wetlands complex on the Pacific coast, the...

'Water For Life: Keep The Wild Alive' Wildlife Week Theme.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... NWF's National Wildlife Week, to be celebrated April 16-22, again emphasizes endangered species, this year focusing on those species that live in or near water. For the first time, Wildlife Week teachers' kits are available on-line rather...

Citizens Have Right To Clean Environment, Montana Court Says.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... In a landmark opinion, the Montana Supreme Court has agreed with NWF and other groups that the state constitution guarantees Montana's citizens a "fundamental right" to a clean and healthful environment. That means no law can legally...

Maine Dam Removal Voted 1999's Best New Development.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... According to the readers of Popular Science magazine, the 1999 "Best of What's New" was not an oven that cooks with light or the discovery of an entirely new element, but rather the nation's first removal of an operating dam to restore historic...

Ore Processing Plant Expansion Threatens Lake Superior.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... NWF and one of its affiliates, the Minnesota Conservation Federation, are urging the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to fully examine the environmental impacts of a proposed iron ore processing facility on the shores of Lake Superior. ...

Keep the Wild Alive - NWF, SeaWorld, Busch Gardens Celebrate 'One Wild Week'.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... NWF's Keep the Wild Alive[ordinal indicator, feminine] program is joining with SeaWorld and Busch Gardens Adventure Parks, sponsors of Keep the Wild Alive, to spotlight endangered species conservation at park locations across the country. ...

The Great American Pastime Tree.(white ash)
April 1, 2000... What do baseball players and foresters have in common? A deep appreciation of the white ash The old tree's time had run out. A white ash of considerable size, it stood along a country lane that winds through a picture-postcard valley in...

Get Along, Little Longhorn: Riding Herd On a Troublesome Tree-Eating Beetle.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Ingram Carner was mad. Someone-or something-was drilling holes in the branches and trunks of the 20 Norway maples in front of his property in Brooklyn, New York. As a landlord, he had to protect the trees. So in early August 1996, Carner, then...

She Helped Americans Fall In Love with Florida's Everglades.(Marjory Stoneman Douglas inducted into the National Wildlife Federation Conservation Hall of Fame)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Marjory Stoneman Douglas was never anybody's saccharine little old lady in tennis shoes. Five feet of feistiness topped off by a floppy hat, the influential writer and activist once acknowledged: "They call me a nice old woman, but I'm not."...

On Capitol Hill, He Provided An Eloquent Voice for Conservation.(Morris King Udall inducted into the National Wildlife Federation Conservation Hall of Fame)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Morris King Udall was not the first U.S. lawmaker to champion the cause of conservation on Capitol Hill. But the lanky Arizona native left a legacy in protecting America's natural heritage that few other members of Congress could ever hope to...

Letters.(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2000... Key International Milestones After reading your wonderful look back at the past 100 years of conservation in the United States ["How Conservation Grew From a Whisper to a Roar," December/January 2000], I thought that your readers would...

Emerging From Obscurity.(Researching martens and fishers)
April 1, 2000... Long overlooked, the fisher and the marten are now coming to light as key indicators of forest health in the West Wildlife researcher Steve Gehman was camped in the middle of Yellowstone National Park, bracing against a winter storm that...

Too Much of a Good Thing.(Excessive nitrogen harms ecosystems)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... The same levels of nitrogen-based compounds that are considered safe for drinking water are enough to sicken and kill several species of amphibians. That's a recent conclusion of researchers at Oregon State University who found that some...

Using Perfume to Drive Her Batty.(Male bats attract females)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... A pinch of urine, a bit of glandular fluid and a drop or two of other bodily discharges. Those are the newly discovered contents of the alluring odor sacs of the tropical male sac-winged bat-alluring that is, for the females of the species....

Fish That Stay Home.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... Fishermen have long known that the growth rings of the tiny crystalline structure in the inner ear of a fish reveal the age of the creature much the way tree rings reveal the age of a tree. And biologists have found that the bones, called...

Shrinking Iguanas.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... When food is scarce, being small means a better chance of survival-at least for grazers that include marine iguanas in Ecuador's Galapagos archipelago. That probably explains why the iguanas have developed the ability to shrink and then regrow,...

Eyes of the Beholder.(Research on insects)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... It's common knowledge that the compound eyes of some insects contain many hundreds of facets, each of which perceives just one image point. Imagine the surprise of a Cornell University research team at the recent discovery that the male Xenos...

The Hidden Benefits Of Shopping with a Mouse.(environmental savings achieved with Internet shopping)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... E-commerce appears to be good for the environment. The nonprofit Center for Energy and Climate Solutions in Washington, D.C., has found that consumers use far less energy shopping on the Internet than they would going to stores themselves. For...

BRINGING THE MAGIC BACK TO THE PLATTE - Can one of the country's most colorful rivers be restored?
April 1, 2000... If there is magic on this planet it is contained in water," the Nebraska-born anthropologist Loren Eiseley wrote, and he had the Platte River of his youth in mind. In The Immense Journey, Eiseley's first collection of nature essays, he...

WHEN IS A POOL NOT A POOL? When it's a vernal pool, a crucial habitat that comes and goes with the seasons.
April 1, 2000... It's nearing midnight on a chilly Tuesday evening in May, and Mike Hayslett is lost in the woods. He crashes through huckleberry bushes and fallen hickory branches in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western Virginia, his headlamp cutting a...

Every Day Is Earth Day.(efforts to be more environmentally correct should occur every day)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... April 22, 2000, marks the thirtieth anniversary of the first Earth Day and its first observance of the twenty-first century. Past Earth Days mobilized public support for momentous legislative achievements such as the Endangered Species, Clean...

EXPOSED: Secret Lives Of WARBLERS.
April 1, 2000... New research reveals that many of the species that breed in this country behave a lot differently in the Tropics Each year in early May, American redstarts begin to stake out their breeding territories in the dense green forests of northern...