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After a quarter-century of dedicated service to Audubon, the not-so-retiring
Donal C. O’Brien steps down.
by John Flicker
Editor's
Note
In Audubon, the story’s incomplete without a solution.
by David Seideman
Letters
Field
Notes
Colorado’s missing lynx; Pale Male conquers Manhattan; remembering
Richard Pough; ephemeral IBAs; more.
Profile
Guadalupe Gumshoe
Nevada Barr is the poet laureate
of the national parks.
by Les Line
True
Nature
An Underwater Ark
Humble eelgrass has a starring role in
coastal ecosystems.
by Christopher Solomon
Journal
What's the Stink About Skunks?
Thoughts on a much-maligned, misunderstood
mammal.
by Jeff Hull
Incite
The Exhausted Sea
How to fix our oceans policy? Here’s a two-letter answer.
by Ted Williams
Earth
Almanac
Autumn’s blazing beauties; flounders take sides; leaving no stone
unturned; bats and butterflies on the move.
by Ted Williams
Audubon
in Action
Q&A with chairman Donal O’Brien; bird banding at the Theodore
Roosevelt Sanctuary; state and chapter news.
Reviews
A founder of ecological restoration states his case.
by Keith Kloor
Backyard
Good to the Last Drop
Your rain garden can reduce pollution and help wildlife.
by Janet Marinelli
One
Picture
A tree slakes its “thirst” on the Yucatán Peninsula.
photograph by Sally Gall
text by Les Line
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forests
Land
of the Giants
Alaska’s
Tongass National Forest is big in every way—from its trees
to its bears to its 16.8 million acres. But if the logging industry
gets its way, it could mean big trouble for one of the world’s
last temperate rainforests.
by Ted Kerasote
fish
conservation
Spawning
Hope
The salmon wars are raging all across the Pacific Northwest.
But on Washington’s Dungeness River, onetime foes, in
an all-too-rare atmosphere of common sense and mutual respect,
have crafted a solution that everyone can live with.
by Susan McGrath
photography by Brian Smale,
Susan Middleton & David Liittschwager
photo
essay
The
Age of Aquarium
In their new book, photographers Len Jenshel
and Diane Cook explore both the splendors of the oceans and
the compelling ways we put them on display.
photography by Len Jenshel and Diane Cook
text by Jennifer Bogo
Cover
photo by Susan Middleton and David Littschwager
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grassland
ecology
Fire
in the Sky
In April 2002 a long period with little
fire came to a dramatic end at the Appleton-Whittel Research Ranch
in southeastern Arizona. But through the billowing smoke could
be seen the salvation of this little-known ecosystem.
by Keith Kloor
photography by Michael
Lundgren
bird
conservation
Living
on the Edges
As sprawl spreads and open-space initiatives come to the fore,
the effects on birds are becoming clearer. Armed with this new
body of information, researchers are designing landscapes that
can help, not hurt, native species.
by T. Edward Nickens
photography by Mitch Epstein
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