National Wildlife articles from February 2002

National Wildlife archives from February 2002

Chief U.S. Land Agency Fails To Protect Treasured Landscapes.(National Wildlife Federation nd the Natural Resources Defense Council reports on the U.S. Bureau of Land Management)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... DESPITE A 25-YEAR mandate to prevent "undue and necessary degradation" of public lands, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) still fails to safeguard the health of millions of acres and the natural resources they support. That is the...

PROGRAM PROFILE - NWF Helps Revitalize Urban Communities.(Building Bridges for Sustainable Communities program)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... AS THE GREATER DETROIT area launches a major initiative to create more natural areas within the city, NWF's Great Lakes Natural Resource Center(r) is playing a key role in encouraging the use of natural plantings to provide wildlife habitat and...

REINTRODUCTION COMMENTS - Public Wants Grizzly Recovery To Proceed.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... AN OVERWHELMING majority of people who commented on Interior Secretary Gale Norton's proposal to abandon grizzly bear recovery in the Bitterroot wilderness of Idaho and Montana reject her plan and want reintroduction to go forward. Of more than...

NWF Urges Congress To Pass Clean Power Act.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... NWF is strongly supporting legislation before Congress that would significantly reduce emissions from coal-fired power plants. Bills introduced in both the Senate and the House would require power plants by 2007 to reduce sulfur dioxide...

Lawsuit Filed Over Ohio's Polluted Waters.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... A coalition of organizations led by NWF has sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failing to require the state of Ohio to clean up its waterways. More than 880 Ohio waterways, including Lake Erie and all the state's major...

Rare Mussel Victim Of Arkansas's White River Projects.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Recent listing of the scale-shell mussel under the Endangered Species Act is another sign that Arkansas's White River has suffered sufficient damage from poorly planned Army Corps of Engineers projects, NWF warns. The listing is...

Eagle Soars To Lift Nation's Wounded Spirit.(bald eagle released in Virginia)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... NWF recently helped release a rehabilitated bald eagle into the skies over Virginia as a symbol of the nation's resiliency in the wake of the September terrorist attacks. The eagle, named Spirit, was returned to the wild by NWF Eastern Region...

CONSERVATION HEROES - Restored Prairie a Landmark Habitat Site.(couple's Iowa land named Backyard Habitat)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... MARY AND JIM NORTON'S 30-year commitment to restoring the tallgrass prairie that once thrived on their New Hartford, Iowa, land paid off recently when NWF certified their farm as its 30,000th Backyard Wildlife Habitat(tm) site. ...

AFFILIATE SPOTLIGHT - Delaware Landowners Learn Stewardship.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... ENCOURAGING LANDOWNERS to protect wildlife habitat and stream corridors on their property and take steps to permanently preserve natural areas is the goal of the Delaware Nature Society's Landowner Stewardship Program. Since the mid-1980s,...

GRASS-ROOTS ACTIVISTS: TAKING A STAND - Native Alaskans Speak Out About Refuge.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... WITH NWF'S HELP, some of the people who would be most affected by oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge are learning to make their voices heard in favor of protecting the refuge and their way of life. Several dozen members of...

Habitat Stewards Release Butterflies at Fair.(Jim and Teresa Gallion)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... ALL WAS AFLUTTER at a Frederick County, Maryland, fair last fall when the traditional pumpkin display moved aside for hundreds of monarch butterflies. The butterfly house, a creation of NWF Habitat Stewards Jim and Teresa Gallion of...

Student Designs Portable Treatment System.
February 1, 2002... AN NWF CAMPUS ECOLOGY(r) Fellowship winner has condensed a natural wastewater treatment system into portable models that can educate schoolchildren and the public about this new technology. As an engineering student at Penn State, Erin...

The Shadow Knows - In Alaska's Far North, the arctic fox shares its secrets of survival.
February 1, 2002... Sometime during the fading 16-hour-long night, the polar wind ebbed and the ground blizzard subsided. In dawn twilight and "warm" minus-20-degree F temperatures, my Inupiaq companions began to load their sleds for a foray onto Beaufort Sea ice...

A RIVER ONCE RAN THROUGH IT - The Colorado River Delta was an oasis for wildlife and people until the water stopped flowing.
February 1, 2002... Ejido Johnson, Mexico. In 1922, a few miles from this dusty farming village, a young forester named Aldo Leopold slipped his canoe into the lower Colorado River and quickly lost his way in a bewildering maze of green. "Verdant walls of mesquite...

The Crocodile's Power Play - Until Everglades habitat is restored, some unexpected nesting sites are helping the American crocodile come back in South Florida.
February 1, 2002... ON A STARRY EARLY SPRING NIGHT in South Florida, biologist Joe Wasilewski steers an airboat down a canal near Biscayne Bay. Suddenly, he kills the engine and jumps from the pilot's seat. Leaping onto the bow of the boat, he dives headfirst...

Remodeling a Room? Think Green.
February 1, 2002... Duct tape held down the misbehaving kitchen tiles. Flowery curtains fanned and twisted into a garish muddle in the living room. Peeling maroon bathroom walls looked ghastly next to rows of smoky-blue tiles. And Danny Seo decided he'd had...

He Transformed Us Into a World of Watchers.(honoring Roger Tory Peterson)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... "What if there had been no Roger Tory Peterson?" The issue was raised a few years ago by S. Dillon Ripley, secretary emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution, in the foreword to a handsome book celebrating Peterson's art and photography. "This...

Tuning In To Humpbacks.
February 1, 2002... Not only do these marine leviathans have musical fads, but females wander while males go cruising for bruisings The Kohola II was only 30 minutes out of the harbor on Maui when researchers aboard spotted a group of humpback whales boiling...

Reader's View.
February 1, 2002... ears and People Like many conservation problems, the issues outlined in your article on black bears ["Growing Pains," October/November 2001] result largely from the same thing: human population growth. The article reported that the primary...

Is That a Marmot Under My Hood?(marmots seek out mineral deposits on engine parts)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... AN ODD SORT OF JUNKIE is wreaking havoc in the Mineral King area of Sequoia National Park in California. Hanging out underneath cars in the parking lot from May to August, the addicts often camp in groups of four or five. Their poison: toxic...

GOING BATTY OVER BIRDS.(bats in Spain eat birds)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Songbirds winging between their winter habitats and summer breeding grounds face many hazards: bad weather, birds of prey, skyscrapers, communications towers. And one previously unrecognized threat: bats. Most bat species around the world...

GETTING SICK OF SPRAWL.(health problems associated with urban sprawl)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... You already know that urban sprawl destroys habitat and creates pollution, but did you know that uncontrolled growth can also be hazardous to your health? In a new report, researchers from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

SEE CREATURE.(starfish-like creature covered with eyes)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... When it comes to spotting predators, one brittle star is all eyes. Literally. The five limbs of Ophiocoma wendtii, a spindly relative of the starfish, are covered with hundreds of tiny lenses that allow the creature to see approaching enemies....

NWF View.('Wildlife Responses to Climate Change' book)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Climate Change Hits Home Climate change is going local. Until now, the global phenomenon of warming temperatures and more extreme weather events tied to emissions of greenhouse gases seemed to be something only occurring on a vast and...

Parched Lands and Mysterious Birds.
February 1, 2002... "You are entering hell," writer Joby Warrick was told as he began a trek across northern Mexico's Sonoran Desert last summer to gather information for this issue's article about the Colorado River Delta. The warning was appropriate. The delta...