National Wildlife articles from October 1996

National Wildlife archives from October 1996

For an all-American yard, go native. (native landscaping)(Backyard Habitat)
October 1, 1996... When the gore family of Washington, D.C., decided to fix up a run-down corner of their woodland property last fall, they went at it in a spirit of Americanism. Out came exotic weedy plants. In went native North American trees and flowers such as...

No longer top dog: studies of coyotes in Yellowstone National Park show that wolf reintroduction is changing the canine social hierarchy.
October 1, 1996... Studies of coyotes in Yellowstone National Park show that wolf reintroduction is changing the canine social hierarchy Biologist Bob Crabtree and several of his colleagues expected nothing out of the ordinary that June day in 1995. As usual, the...

Why cockatoos are left-footed: and other new explanations for some of the animal kingdom's more puzzling behaviors.
October 1, 1996... Animal-behavior scientists are no longer content simply to describe what animals do and where and when they do it. The main question now is why: Why do spiders commit suicide? Why do puppies bow? As researchers look more closely at the elaborate...

Trees born of fire and ice. (quaking aspens)
October 1, 1996... Ice Age glaciers and modern wildfires have shaped the biology of the quaking aspen, North America's most widely distributed tree Between Alaska's Yukon River valley and the northern peaks of Mexico's Sierra Madre lie 3,000 miles of widely...

Symbol of hope? (the American peregrine falcon)(Success Story)
October 1, 1996... The American peregrine falcon's numbers have increased dramatically in the past two decades; should the bird be removed from the Endangered Species List? On a blustery afternoon this past May at Brigantine marsh, part of the Edwin B. Forsythe...

The art of whale watching: off the coast of Maui, an artist teams up with filmmakers to capture the essence of giant humpbacks.
October 1, 1996... Off the coast of Maui, an artist teams up with filmmakers to capture the essence of giant humpbacks John Seerey-Lester suspected his mind was playing tricks on him. Traveling with a film crew in a boat off the coast of Maui, the British-born...

Alaska diary.(Seasons of the Moose)
October 1, 1996... When Michio Hoshino earned a degree in economics from Japan's Keio University in 1975, he was decidedly different from the other graduates. For one thing, he was enthralled with Alaska, which he had visited as a teenager. "Most of my classmates...

NWF, other groups sue EPA for failing to protect nation's great waters. (National Wildlife Federation; Environmental Protection Agency)
October 1, 1996... It's a simple fact of nature: What goes up must come down. So, it's not surprising that pollutants spewed into the air eventually end up in our water. Now, six years after Congress directed the Environmental Protection Agency to take any...

Roger Tory Peterson: 1908-1996. (author and ornithologist)(American Heroes)(Obituary)
October 1, 1996... "What if there had been no Roger Tory Peterson?" The issue was raised not long 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...