National Wildlife articles from August 2002

National Wildlife archives from August 2002

Measuring Footprints: A Tale of Two Families.(environmental impact of industrialized nations)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2002... JYOTI KHANDELWAL lives in one of the many overcrowded slums in Delhi that house nearly half of the 13 million residents of the city in India. The 17-year-old's neighborhood, called Premnagar, is a ramshackle collection of two- and three-story...

NWF Fights for Forest Conservation Funds.(National Wildlife Fund seeks protection of Northern Forest)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... The 26-million-acre Northern Forest is the largest unbroken forest in the East, stretching across Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York. Recognizing that current practices threaten the region's future, NWF's Northeastern Natural Resource...

Program Profile: Native Partnerships Protect Land.(National Wildlife Federation's partnerships with Native Americans)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Native American lands, home to more than 525 species, provide valuable habitat across the United States. Native tribes manage--directly or indirectly--approximately 95 million acres of land. Recognizing the immense opportunity Native Americans...

Healthy Habitats: First School District Certified.(Orinda Union School District in Orinda, California)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... As a pioneer in a growing educational trend, the Orinda Union School District in Orinda, California, has been certified as the nation's first public school district to create certified Schoolyard Habitats sites at every school. Orinda's...

NWF Headquarters Garners Annual "Green" Award.(National Wildlife Federation)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... The American Institute of Architects recently honored NWF's headquarters building in Reston, Virginia, as one of its Top Ten "Green" Projects for 2002. The award is given to projects that contribute to the surrounding ecosystems and use...

Youth Learn Civic Skills at Summit.
August 1, 2002... NWF's Alaska Youth for Environmental Action (AYEA) Program recently hosted the Civics and Conservation Summit in Juneau. At the event in April, rural and urban students met with their legislators, learned how to talk to the media, participated...

NWF Material Adapted for Use in Mexican Schools.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... NWF's new Mexican initiative, La Alianza Para la Vida Silvestre (Partnership for Wildlife), is collaborating with Pronatura Noreste, a Mexican conservation organization, to provide training workshops to teachers in Monterrey, Mexico. Based on...

Shareholders Tell General Electric: Reveal Costs.(cost of dreding Hudson River sought)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... In April, 21.8 percent of participating General Electric (GE) shareholders (a two-fold increase from 2001) voted in favor of a proposal urging the company to reveal how much it spent on efforts to avoid dredging the Hudson River of PCBs. The...

Texas Affiliate Helps Halt Corps Project.(impact statement found wanting)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... The Texas Committee on Natural Resources, NWF's Texas affiliate, won an important legal victory in April when a U.S. District Court in Fort Worth ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers did not fully analyze the cumulative impacts of the...

Conservation Heroes: Missouri Couple Donates Time to Refuge.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... George and Alice Scheil have dedicated decades to helping wildlife and natural places. Lifetime members of NWF since the 1970s, the Scheils are certified in NWF's Backyard Wildlife Habitat TM Program and have attended 26 Family Summits TM. But...

Affiliate Spotlight: Maine Fights to Protect Air, Water.(Natural Resources Council of Maine)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... In recent months, the Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM) has focused much of its efforts on protecting the state's air and water resources. Working with a coalition of public-interest groups, NRCM lobbied Maine's legislature to pass...

Petition Aims to Protect Birds From Towers.(FCC towers kill millions of migratory birds)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... NWF and other groups have petitioned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to require immediate environmental assessments for three sites on the tip of Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula on Lake Superior. Three 475-foot communications towers...

NWF Will Sue to Save Endangered Salmon.(Washington sued in chinook salmon case)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Charging that thousands of salmon protected by the Endangered Species Act are being killed, NWF announced that it will sue central Washington's Grant County Public Utility District #2. NWF contends that the utility district mismanages two...

New U.S. Postal Stamps Go Batty.(American bat stamps)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... On September 13, NWF will join with the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) and other organizations to celebrate the new American bat stamps. The official unveiling of the stamps, as well as a bat show and bat-box building workshop, will occur in...

How You Can Become Active With Your State Affiliate.(National Wildlife Foundation)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... National Wildlife Federation affiliates are autonomous, state-wide, nonprofit organizations that take the lead in state and local conservation issues and also partner with NWF to conduct grass-roots activities on national issues. There are...

The Buzz About Bee Houses for Your Garden.(attracting bees to pollinate garden)
August 1, 2002... At first glance, Taren Urquhart's backyard in suburban Vancouver, British Columbia, looks like a condo for birds. Little wooden houses with quaint, peaked roofs are everywhere--on the deck railing, under the eaves, near the barbecue. But these...

Second Chance for a Dying Estuary - The monumental task of restoring the Everglades begins 100 miles to the north.
August 1, 2002... FROM ENCOUNTERS with alligators and downed aircraft to surprised tourists who've seen her and various family members crawling out of the swamp, Maggy Hurchalla has plenty to tell her grandson about her escapades in the Everglades--a place where...

CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE - Warfare is only one of many threats driving the world's great apes toward extinction.(apes of Africa and Southeast Asia)
August 1, 2002... A GUNSHOT streaks through the green wall of woods. Eeeek, ahhhhhhh, calls a chimpanzee in alarm. Branches break. Vines snap. Animals flee, seeking shelter under thicker parts of the canopy. From where I'm sleeping, I see shadows of guns and men...

Bird Tales with a Bite - Their "gross beaks" may be the reason for their renown, but these five species also have some interesting stories to tell.(grosbeaks)
August 1, 2002... UNLESS you've had an evening grosbeak lock its massive mandibles on your index finger and not let go, you have no idea of the strength in the jaws of this boldly dressed songbird whose genus name translates as "kernel-cracker." The first time...

OF KILLER CATERPILLARS and VAMPIRE BUGS - Hawaii's weird and wacky insects evolved in splendid isolation. But now there's trouble in paradise.
August 1, 2002... A VORACIOUS predator hides somewhere in this lush Hawaiian rain forest, and photographer Bill Mull has offered to lead me to it. We walk beneath lichen-crusted ohi'a trees until Mull waves me to a stop near a clump of wild ginger. He bends down...

Letters.
August 1, 2002... Saying Volumes If a picture is worth a thousand words, then "American Beauty" [April/May 2002] is worth a thousand times that many words. The photographs you included in the article say volumes about what makes this nation remarkable from...

Combating the Lord of the Flies.(mosquito-borne illness)
August 1, 2002... DUANE GUBLERwants you to get rid of your standing water. That means collecting the toys under the deck, the old tarp next to the garden and even the paint-can lid in the grass. "In other words," he says, "picking up the trash." That's because,...

News Of The Wild.(ground squirrels' warning system, other news)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... KISSING (AND DISSING) COUSINS It's the classic case of self-sacrifice for one's kin. When a predator approaches, a female Belding's ground squirrel rears up on her hind legs to bark a warning to her mother, sisters and daughters, risking...

HOSTILE BEAUTY - Few people outside of Wyoming know about the Red Desert, and that's partly why this national treasure is in jeopardy.
August 1, 2002... AS THE LITTLE CESSNA drops its right wing and begins a slow turn east following the creekbed of the Dry Sandy, the Oregon Buttes loom before us like a blunt-faced whale surfacing from the sagebrush plains, barnacled with limber pine. In the...

Landfill Magic - Europe's fabled white stork is flourishing in some unlikely places on the Iberian Peninsula.
August 1, 2002... EVERY THURSDAY, you can find Jose Aguirre bobbing and weaving his mud- spattered green van through a grimy gauntlet of potholes, trash hunks and roiling trucks. Dressed in khakis, a green sweatshirt and sporting short-cropped dark brown...

Travels Through Obscure Places.
August 1, 2002... You won't find the Red Desert listed in many Western tourist guides. Though it spawls across more than five million acres in southern Wyoming--an area larger than the state of Connecticut--most Americans have never even heard of it. "People...

Tracking Tigers and History in India.(filming tiger documentary)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... WILDLIFE MOVIE CREWS are accustomed to working under demanding conditions. So when a pair of filmmakers set out in the spring of 2000 to capture a female tiger and her cubs on large-format film in India's Bandhavgarh National Park, they knew...

Daunting Challenges.(World Summit on Sustainable Development)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, is a long way from America's Red Desert. But upcoming events there will be important to the cause of conservation both at home and abroad. In late August, the World Summit on Sustainable Development opens in...