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Editor's
Note
See what some dogged environmentalists pulled off in the Arizona desert.
By David Seideman
Audubon
View
Audubon and BirdLife International team up to be a global force for
birds.
By
John Flicker
Letters
Arctic Update
A bad result on drilling in Alaska. Find out how your senators voted.
Field
Notes
Mercury pollution shows up in a new place; the big chill at the USFWS;
sowing the grassroots; tracking the grey-headed albatross; more.
Migrations
Rocky Redoubt
This island IBA off southern California is a refuge for Xantus' murrelet.
By Frank Graham Jr
Profile
Pulp Fiction
Michael Crichton's new best-seller proves that fiction is stranger than
truth.
By Daniel Glick
Incite
Something's Fishy
Do the Northwest's fish hatcheries help-or harm-wild fish populations?
By Ted Williams
Audubon
at Home
A
Falcon With Flair
Build this box, and you might share your space with an American kestrel.
By Frank Graham Jr./Kestrel box by René Laubach
Earth
Almanac
Meet a heavy metal beetle; wolf souvenirs; a streambed jewel; fierce
flyers!
By Ted Williams
Journal
Mourning
Glory
Are some bird species more equal than others?
By
Thomas Urquhart
Audubon
Directory
Reviews
The
Tree of Life
To the oak, a stalwart companion to human progress.
By Frank Graham Jr.
One
Picture
A hurricane warning is this photographer's call to duty.
Photograph by Clifford Ross/Text by Les Line
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Birds
The
Big Flap
A biologist faces a daunting challenge
trying to teach trumpeter swans to return to breed on the East
Coast. An even bigger challenge may be battling his critics.
By
Ted Kerasote
Solutions
Score
One for the Desert
After
many years, hundreds of meetings, and fistfights in church
bathrooms, a funny thing happened. Widely disparate interests,
from environmentalists to developers, closed ranks to forge
a landmark agreement that will preserve a big part of Arizona's
Sonoran Desert.
By Keith Kloor/Photography by Chip Simons
Cover
photo by Art Wolfe
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Photo
Essay
East Is East
A master photographer fused an innovative technique with a personal
view of nature to produce visions of his native China that are
mysterious, ethereal, and startlingly original.
Photography
by Don Hong-Oai/Text by Kenn Kaufman
Rehabilitation
2nd
Chances
At New York City's Rikers Island prison, inmates in the GreenHouse
Program plant vegetable gardens, build bird feeders and nest boxes,
get an introduction to ecology, and learn lessons about starting
over.
By Maria Finn Dominguez/Photography
by Doug DuBois
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