Animals articles from January 1997

Animals archives from January 1997

Public opinion bans cruelty. (animal-rights referendums in various states)(Column)
January 1, 1997... For wildlife across the nation, 1996 was not your typical election year. In five states' residents voted to pass referendums banning particularly cruel hunting and trapping practices and reform outmoded wildlife-management mandates. In...

Galen Rowell takes a stand on peregrine delisting. (photographer; peregrine falcon)(Editorial)
January 1, 1997... Renowned photojournalist Galen Rowell's assignments for National Geographic, Life, and other magazines have taken him around the world for nearly 30 years. But it is the plight of a raptor on Rowell's native Pacific Coast that has captured his...

Walking with rhinos: the story of Anna Merz. (animal conservationist who lives in Kenya)
January 1, 1997... The day Samia the rhino didn't show up changed Anna Merz's life forever. But their remarkable story also changed the way humans think about--the protect--rhinos. It was a cool, hazy February evening at Lewa Downs in Kenya, and I was...

Mica makes the grade: a hearing dog trains hard to offer her ears and heart to her human companion.
January 1, 1997... A hearing dog trains hard to offer her ears and heart to her human companion. Mica, a ball of silky orange hair on four dainty legs, dashes to the door in response to several loud knocks. Then the seven-pound Pomeranian races to her...

Peregrine paradox: with their recovery still in its fledgling stage, will peregrines lose the protection they so desperately need?(Special Report)(Cover Story)
January 1, 1997... With their recovery still in its fledgling stage, will peregrines lose the protection they so desperately need? On a clear spring morning last year, I stepped off the edge of a crumbling sea cliff with joyful expectation. Rappelling below...

How to survive moving with your cat: a guide to packing up your cat's moving-day troubles.
January 1, 1997... If you ask Kate Chesley, director of public relations at Clark University, what it was like moving from Chicago to Worcester, Massachusetts, with three cats, she'll tell you. "It was hell," she admits with a laugh, the memory still vivid seven...

A tropical Johnny Appleseed: Lynn Carpenter spreads seeds of hope for rainforests.
January 1, 1997... The natives called it la finca feat The ugly farm. But when Lynn Carpenter first saw this 63-acre swatch of land in the hills of Cota Brus, Costa Rica, she envisioned something entirely different. Instead of denuded foothills, torched by fire...

Why didn't the salamanders cross the road? (flatwoods salamanders are near extinction)
January 1, 1997... A rare salamander quietly succumbs to habitat degradation. When the autumn rains begin to fall across the Florida panhandle and the longleaf pines hunch their shoulders against the chill, flatwoods salamanders are on the move. For several...

In Search of Nature.
January 1, 1997... By E. O. Wilson. 199 pages. Shearwater Books/Island Press. $19.95 hardcover. The first collection of E. O. Wilson's short writings, In Search of Nature, presents the work of an eminent scientist in a highly accessible form. Wilson, an...

Dog Love.
January 1, 1997... By Marjorie Garber. 286 pages. Simon & Schuster. $24 hardcover. "In literature and popular culture, in psychology, animal behavior, and fashion, the last years of the 20th century could be called the Decade of the Dog," writes Marjorie...