National Wildlife articles from June 1997

National Wildlife archives from June 1997

Children at risk: what you can do.(protecting children from toxic chemicals)(includes related statistics)
June 1, 1997... As the Special Report in this issue explains, evidence is mounting that the worst time for an animal to be exposed to toxic chemicals is before it is even born, and the next worst time is when it is very young. And that includes the human animal....

Coneflower's popularity: prescription for trouble?(coneflower poaching)
June 1, 1997... When Paul Buck knelt down to examine fresh diggings last summer in a native tallgrass prairie near Bartlesville, Oklahoma, he couldn't believe the damage done. Just a few days before, the field had been carpeted with one of the prairie's most...

They're well-suited for studying moose.(wildlife biologists wear moose costume for research)
June 1, 1997... If you can't beat em, join em. That was the conclusion wildlife biologist Joel Berger came to before starting last winter's fieldwork, studying moose--Alces alces--in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park and in parts of Alaska. Along with wife...

Enabling the disabled to attract wildlife at home.(gardening for the disabled)
June 1, 1997... Hear Gene Rothert talk about his garden and it's obvious that attracting wild- life matters to him. "I use trees with persistent fruit--berries that bring in the birds in the wintertime," he says. "I plant a lot of coneflower; the gold- finches...

Children at risk: the young are harmed far more by toxic pollutants than adults, suggest new research on wildlife and humans.(includes related information)
June 1, 1997... To one knows exactly why so few baby boys were born in the late 1970s and early 1980s to certain families in Seveso, Italy. But the answer may lie in a 1976 industrial explosion that spewed out the pollutant dioxin. Two weeks after the accident,...

Life in the fast lane: scientists are finally learning how tiny hummingbirds survive in their world of incredible extremes.
June 1, 1997... No bird can maneuver in mid-air as deftly as a hummingbird. Biologist Gayle Brown learned that fact firsthand while doing field work a few years ago on Vancouver Island. She was trying to band some of the tiny rufous hummingbirds that breed on...

Surviving on a wing and a prayer.(endangered Schaus swallowtail butterfly makes a comeback in Florida)
June 1, 1997... Thomas Emmel hunkers on the edge of the dark and humid subtropical forest known as a hammock. The area is the part of the Florida Keys that few tourists ever see. In the steamy hammock, there is no Jimmy Buffett on the juke box. The soundtrack is...

Art in the eye of the beholder.(wildlife art)
June 1, 1997... Each of us carries around a brainful of images that are visible only through the mind's eye. They are recurring pictures of the past--incidents that remain as vivid in our thoughts as the day we experienced them. For me, one of those recurring...

Private use of public lands? New industry strategies for gaining control of national resources on the nation's public lands worry conservationists.
June 1, 1997... When Ken Sleight heard last October that a road crew was on its way to Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land near his Utah home, he headed for the site too. A horse outfitter with 40 years of experience, Sleight had long been aware of conflicts...

A family affair: at her grandmother's grave site, an accomplished wildlife photographer shares some bittersweet moments with a family of foxes.(Cover Story)
June 1, 1997... As a fledgling wildlife photographer in the early 1980s, Wendy Shattil had to divide her time between taking pictures in the field, selling them on the phone and maintaining another, 40-hour-per-week job to pay the bills. Years passed before she...

Measuring the value of a life.(pollywog rescue narrative)(Column)
June 1, 1997... I don't know when I last saw a pollywog. It must have been more than 60 years ago in the small New Jersey town where I grew up. You know what pollywogs are, don't you? Some people refer to them as tadpoles. Whatever you call them, they're really...