National Wildlife articles from October 1994

National Wildlife archives from October 1994

A question of property rights and wrongs. (includes related article)
October 1, 1994... Do Americans really want their neighbors to be able to do whatever they want with their land? The nation's largest estuary, Chesapeake Bay is a crown jewel of the East Coast ringed by wetlands, towns, farms and industry. Without its...

Fish out of water.
October 1, 1994... Early in the Devonian Era, nearly 400 million years ago, all the continents were grouped closely together and surrounded by sea. The climate ranged from periods of dry weather to periods of torrential rains, much as parts of the tropics do...

Tale of two warblers.
October 1, 1994... The trip to a Jamaican mountain village with the improbable name of Rat Trap includes a white-knuckle drive on the wrong side of the road. Guard rails are a wish, cows stand tethered on the narrow verge of hairpin curves, and donkey carts...

The art of growing giants. (giant clams)
October 1, 1994... The giant clams inhabiting the remote Palauan reef were sitting ducks. In a matter of days, divers from a Taiwanese fishing boat illegally uprooted nearly 15,000 of the creatures from their coral perches, cutting out the animals' adductor...

NWF's Great Lakes Natural Resources Center: Protecting the world's vast freshwater seas. (National Wildlife Federation at work)
October 1, 1994... The five Great Lakes are the world' greatest freshwater resource, accounting for more than 20 percent of the surface freshwater on Earth. Twelve years ago, to help protect these vast inland seas from toxic chemical pollution, water diversions,...

Deer watch.
October 1, 1994... At About 10:00 P.M. on an autumn ninght not long ago, a white-tailed deer wandered into Northampton, a city of 30,000 in western Massachusetts. The seven-point buck ambled down State Street, took a left on Gothic, sauntered between the courthouse...

Can we save the Northwest's salmon? (includes related article)
October 1, 1994... In August of 1992, he slipped along the shoreline of Idaho's Redfish Lake toward home. He was well hidden from view by the water and the night. Anyone along the shores would have seen only wet stones and ripplings of rain-pocked water snapping...

Stories behind the paintings.
October 1, 1994... BEAUTY IS TRUTH, and truth beauty, poet John Keats once wrote. And yet, for many wildlife artists across many years, combining beauty and truth in a single painting - in the form of accurate depictions of wildlife - often has proved difficult...