National Wildlife articles from August 1997

National Wildlife archives from August 1997

Seeking solutions to the floods of tears. (flood control)(Editorial)
August 1, 1997... As we think back on a spring of drenching floods in the upper Midwest and look ahead to a hurricane season that could demolish more real estate in the southern United States, we should take a hard look at this nation's flood con- trol policies...

Battling the cell from Hell. (research on Pfiesteria piscida)
August 1, 1997... JoAnn M. Burkholder looked into the television monitor attached to a powerful microscope. Before her, a swarm of tiny killers swam into view. "Oooo, look at all those," she said as the microbes darted across a slide covered with human blood and...

How to create a mini-wetland.(Backyard Habitat)
August 1, 1997... Once dismissed as breeding grounds of disease, many of our nation's swamps, bogs and wet meadows have been drained and filled. "We have lost more than 50 percent of our native wetlands in the lower 48 states since colonial times," says Doug...

Finding beautiful facts in feathers. (bird feathers)(Conservation Tools)(Cover Story)
August 1, 1997... Perched in a tall maple tree at New Hampshire's Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, a tiny bird looses a series of high-pitched notes and then falls silent. But even with its bill firmly closed, the creature still sends a mes- sage. Its sleek body...

How to have your wood and your forest too: according to a new kind of certifier, you can help conserve forests with your purchase dollars.
August 1, 1997... Five years ago, Chip Chapman didn't give much thought to creatures like the marbled salamander. For almost two decades, Chapman has been a forester in central New England, with small-landowner clients trying to earn money from their woodlots. The...

Two views, same waterway. (restored riverbank)
August 1, 1997... From where the San Pedro River splashes across the Mexico border in southern Arizona to where it empties into the Gila River 125 miles to the north, the waterway runs much of its course as a wide, shallow trickle framed by eroded banks with scant...

Bullies of the bird world. (cukoos)
August 1, 1997... Organized crime was not what Manuel Soler expected to find on the Hoya de Guadix, a sparse, windswept plateau on the southern coast of Spain. Soler, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Granada, has spent every spring there for the past...

King of the mountain. (mountain goats)
August 1, 1997... The icy ledge I was creeping along in Montana's Glacier National Park was nar- rowing fast, and the half dozen mountain goats up ahead seemed about to run out of room altogether. Just when I figured they had all the climbing chal- lenge any...

Protecting her kids from toxic dumps. (biologist Kathy Hadley)(American Heroes)
August 1, 1997... Three miles upstream from the roar of Niagara Falls in New York lies a quiet island where Kathy Hadley grew up and fished and hunted with her brothers. She became a biologist, married, had a child and led a quiet life until 1977. In that year,...