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Editor's Note (pre-9/11)
The fate of our wildlife may depend on the outcome of a race--between education and catastrophe.
by David Seideman

Editor's Note (post-9/11)
The world changed forever on September 11, bringing home the importance of respecting
all life.
by David Seideman

Contributors

Audubon View
As we battle terrorism, we must safeguard the values that define us: free speech, individual liberties, and a healthy environment.
by John Flicker

Letters

Field Notes
A new look at wetlands mitigation; taking fish off the menu in the national parks; dust storms wreak havoc around the globe; cloning the "champions"; and more.

Journal
Double-Talk
As we lose our wild forests, oceans, prairies, and deserts, we're also losing the very language we use to defend wild places.
by Rick Bass

Incite
Red Baiting
The USDA thinks its idea to poison 2 million red-winged blackbirds a year will help sunflower farmers. The problem is, the agency's own data suggest the plan won't work.
by Ted Williams

Earth Almanac
Glad tidings from nature, including a Christmas cactus, quick-frozen hoarfrost, and tenacious crows and steelheads.
by Ted Williams

Audubon in Action
A state-of-the-green Audubon center in Maine; a couple of whiz kids on a Christmas Bird Count; state and chapter news.

Reviews
Books to Hang by the Chimney
With Care
The classics and classics-to-be of nature writing for kids.
by Christopher Camuto

One Picture
A portrait of the luna moth from master nature photographer Eliot Porter, in one of his earliest efforts in color.
Photograph by Eliot Porter ~ Text by Les Line

 

EDUCATION
The Sky's the Limit
All over Latin America, educators are promoting "schoolyard ecology" as a way to build a greater sense of environmental awareness in the next generation.
by Alex Markels ~ photography by Andy Anderson

PROFILE
Swimming Upstream
Wilf Carter has dedicated his life to saving the Atlantic salmon. Though the species is slipping ever closer to extinction, there is still a sliver of hope--and that is Carter's greatest legacy.
by Charles L. Gaines III ~ photography by John Goodman

on the brink
Despite some successes in the battle to save the Atlantic salmon, a new generation of defenders finds itself still fishing for answers to the species' survival.
by Monte Burke

PHOTO ESSAY
Recapturing Eden
Through their striking images of endangered plants and animals, a pair of veteran photographers set out to show the Hawaii that few visitors ever see.
photography by David Liittschwager and Susan Middleton

CONSERVATION
The New Zoo
Zoos were once just places to gawk at animals in cages. But at today's best zoos, millions of visitors each year take part in a new mission: to save wildlife in wild places.
by Rene S. Ebersole ~ photography by Dan Winters

 


 
 
 

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