National Wildlife articles from February 1998

National Wildlife archives from February 1998

More peril for endangered species. (Senate bill proposes changes to the Endangered Species Act)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
February 1, 1998... For nearly 25 years, the Endangered Species Act has held up as the nation's embattled yet enduring shield against wildlife extinction. But today, in an ill-conceived political compromise, Congress is on the verge of diminishing the act's very...

Modern science takes a look at an ancient monster. (Gila monster)
February 1, 1998... Look at an Ancient Monster From the depths of his winter burrow in New Mexico's Chihuahuan Desert, a Gila monster claws to the surface and peers at the rocky landscape with his reptilian eyes. The male flicks his forked tongue and "tastes" the...

Giving rare creatures a fighting chance. (habitat conservation plans)
February 1, 1998... Can controversial plans involving private landowners really protect many of the nation's imperiled creatures? Perhaps no other law in American history has been as criticized, scrutinized and eulogized as the Endangered Species Act. From the...

Total recall. (chickadee behavior)
February 1, 1998... Imagine a bird that grows a brand-new brain every fall so it can remember all the places where it will stash tens of thousands of insects and seeds. Imagine a bird that appears to make conscious decisions about when and where to store food....

Prosimians find a home far from home.
February 1, 1998... In North Carolina, researchers are gaining insight into the behavior of some of the world's most unusual primates When you go to the trouble of importing Coquerel's sifakas from tropical Madagascar to a facility in North Carolina, the last...

How to protect our imperiled pollinators. (includes related article)
February 1, 1998... A decline in bees and other pollinators is trouble for the entire country. Here's what you can do about it. One sunny morning last summer, Hachiro Shimanuki strolled into the backyard garden of his home in Maryland. With camel-hair brush in...

In fishing for answers, they found the cause of a frog's decline. (yellow-legged frog tadpoles eaten by trout that were stocked in California lakes as part of a federal program)(Brief Article)
February 1, 1998... Martin Roland Knapp first became interested in mountain yellow-legged frogs in the late 1980s when he accidentally stumbled upon a huge population of them while on a recreational hike in the remote backcountry of California's Kings Canyon...

While gardening for wildlife, he planted seeds for his own development.(Brief Article)(Column)
February 1, 1998... All that remains of Backyard Wildlife Habitat #364 is the certificate the National Wildlife Federation sent me in 1976. When I open my keepsake album every now and then, that piece of paper reminds me of a seminal time and place that taught me so...