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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
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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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