National Wildlife articles from June 1995

National Wildlife archives from June 1995

There's an endangered species on my land! (private landowners as custodians of endangered species)
June 1, 1995... As soon as Mary and Harry Presley saw the half-acre lot with its palmettos and pine near Malabar, Florida, they knew they wanted to build their dream house there. The couple closed on the property, hired a builder and sold their old home. But...

Astrology for snowshoe hares. (population cycle linked to sunspots and solar cycle)
June 1, 1995... Throughout the forests of Canada and the northern United States, populations of snowshoe hares are now exploding. But as recently as the winter of 1994, at research sites where only a few years earlier ecologists had recorded many hundreds of...

Cracking down on mining pollution. (environmental lawyer Thomas Galloway develops Applicant/Violator System to find violators of mining law)
June 1, 1995... Thomas Galloway is going mining without even leaving the comfort of his law office in downtown Washington D.C. The ore he seeks: villainy in the Appalachian coalfields. Wrapping a hand over a mouse, one of those desktop gizmos used to run...

The quest for water. (water-gathering techniques of different animals)
June 1, 1995... Scientists have found that animals obtain liquid in an astounding variety of ways: by drinking, eating, absorbing - -even creating water from scratch The Texas homed toad is one of the fiercer-looking inhabitants of the arid American...

Mono Lake saved. (environmentalists succeed in fight to preserve Mono Lake, California)
June 1, 1995... At California's Mono Lake, the gulls have settled in to breed, using low nests of grass and sticks. Three-quarters of the state's California gulls summer here where the eastern escarpment of the High Sierra meets the Great Basin. Brine shrimp by...

Saving geese, saving himself. (Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge officer Charles Hunt encourages fellow Eskimos to save waterfowl)
June 1, 1995... Alarmed at the distant drone of an airplane, the Yup'ik Eskimo teenager searched the horizon. Snow still covered most of the tundra landscape that last week of April 34 years ago, but the shallow sloughs of Alaska's Yukon Delta had melted,...

Is there a message in these paintings? (works of wildlife artist Ray Harris-Ching)
June 1, 1995... The afternoon sun bursts through menacing clouds of rural Britain, streaming obliquely across the rooftops of the village of Bradford-on-Avon. It casts a golden glow across a stone church built by the Saxons in 720, the oldest church on mainland...