National Wildlife back issues from December 2000:
Arctic Weather and Tropical Typhoons.(lengths to which photographers will go to get nature photographs)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Most of the wildlife photographers whose images appear on these pages are accustomed to working under challenging conditions. But sometimes those conditions are so severe that even the most seasoned professional has to wonder what he has gotten himself into. Alaska ...
Dangerous Levels of Mercury Found in New England Rain.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Data from its Clean the Rain, Clean the Lakes II report showing unsafe levels of mercury in rain falling on New England have prompted the National Wildlife Federation to join with local organizations in taking one of its key campaigns to the Northeast. NWF launched the Clean the ...
Realtor Strives To Save North Carolina Woods He Loves.(Joe McDonald's efforts to conserve the environment)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... When foreign service officer Joe McDonald had a chance to take early retirement from the State Department in the late 1980s, he knew exactly what he wanted to do. "I decided that what was going on in my Carolina woods was more important than anything going on in any foreign country," he ...
Activists' Crusade Protects Urban Bog As Wildlife Haven.(acreage in Anchorage, Alaska)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... A seven-year battle over the fate of a valuable wetland in the middle of Anchorage, Alaska, has paid off in victory for NWF and the local activists it helped mobilize. Three years ago, NWF's Alaska office staff organized local residents to fight a developer's plan to build 100 ...
NWF, BP Amoco Join Together In Wildlife Promotion.(National Wildlife Federation)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Through a special promotion by NWF and BP Amoco, consumers can buy children cute toy animals, teach some valuable lessons about endangered wildlife and help support NWF's conservation work at the same time. Between December 1 and January 15, anyone who buys eight gallons of fuel ...
NWF, Affiliates Urge Fast Action On Platte River Plan.(National Wildlife Federation; Platte River water management plan)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... NWF and its Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming affiliates are urging federal and state governments to finalize a plan for improving water levels in the Platte River. The U.S. Interior Department and the governors of the three states have drafted a cooperative agreement for managing ...
Yellowstone Bison Plan Falls Short, According to NWF.(National Wildlife Federation; management of bison in Yellowstone Park)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... In a final proposed plan for managing bison in and around Yellowstone National Park over the next 15 years, several federal agencies have come up with a lopsided approach that places too heavy a burden on the bison, the Federation says. The plan was drafted by the National Park Service, ...
NWF Certifies Indiana Town As Community Habitat.(National Wildlife Federation; Zionsville, Indiana)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Zionsville, Indiana, a small town north of Indianapolis whose residents created doz-ens of wildlife habitat sites over the past three years, has been certified by NWF as the nation's second Community Wildlife Habitat. Concerned about loss of wetlands and forests to development, ...
Ruling Will Improve Wildlife Safeguards Throughout Nation.(effects of court ruling requiring specifics to develop wildlife habitats in Sacramento, California)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... The federal district court in Sacramento has ruled that a Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP), intended to strike a balance between private development and the needs of imperiled species, must contain more than vague promises of future protection for those species. The decision is a ...
Keep the Wild Alive.(Wind River Bear Institute receives grant from National Wildlife Federation)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Grant Helps Train Dogs To Steer Bears Away from Humansith a grant from NWF's Keep the Wild Alive program, the Wind River Bear Institute in Utah is expanding its work in "reconditioning" problem bears as an alternative to killing or relocating the animals. Bear biologist and ...
How a Famed Novelist Became Godfather To a Tiny Endangered Butterfly.
Dec 01, 2000; ... When Vladimir Nabokov identified a tiny American butterfly as a distinct subspecies in 1944, he had no reason to think the insect would someday become endangered. One of the twentieth century's great novelists, Nabokov was also a skilled amateur entomologist who made significant ...
Letters.(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
Dec 01, 2000 ... Wildlife and Climate Change Your recent article on climate change ["Wildlife on the Hot Seat," Au- gust/September 2000] raised some excellent points. Here in Minnesota, incredible things are happening with respect to wildlife and climate change. No Minnesota species are moving ...
News of the Wild.(News Briefs)
Dec 01, 2000; ... SALMON LOVERS If you're a wild animal living in the Pacific Northwest, the chances are good that a pink-fleshed fish plays an important role in your diet. According to a recent report by Washington State's Department of Fish and Wildlife, 137 different species of ...
PHOTO CONTEST.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... THREE DECADES AGO, the editors of National Wildlife challenged readers to document pollution with their cameras. Among the disturbing images that poured into the magazine's offices as a result of that challenge was a photo of a dead cormorant lying on a beach. The gruesome picture was ...
Plastic Packaging Is Durable, Lightweight and Inexpensive; So What's the Problem?(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000; ... At first glance, the plastic beer bottle looks remarkably like its glass bottle cousins: an amber base coupled with a long, tapered neck. But in fact, when the Miller Brewing Company introduced the bottle in late 1998, consumers didn't quite know what to make of it. Neither did recyclers. ...
IN SEARCH OF Guilt-Free Seafood - With many fish populations depleted around the world, what can a concerned consumer eat?
Dec 01, 2000; ... Salmon or lobster? Cod or squid? If you ask yourself such questions and want to avoid seafood that is overfished, you are not alone. Consider, for example, the chefs at the high-profile Monterey Bay and New England Aquariums, which together serve seafood to more than a million people a ...
Challenge In The Heart Of Winter - High in the mountains of northern Alaska, the author braves bitter cold to observe an annual Dall's sheep ritual.
Dec 01, 2000; ... Early winter, Brooks Range, Alaska. North of the Arctic Circle, on the slopes of the mountains where the Dall's sheep live, the sun went down before Thanksgiving and will not rise again until early January. For about four hours each day, the range brightens with enough twilight to make the ...
Fighting the Winds of Change - On the remote islands of Guam and the Northern Marianas, 180-mile-per-hour typhoons may be the easiest challenge for native birds.
Dec 01, 2000; ... Hawaii residents like me often dismiss out of hand Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. We generally view these American outposts about 3,700 miles to the west of Honolulu as the ugly stepsisters of tropical island life: humid, overcrowded, typhoon-lashed backwaters lousy with resorts ...
Tired of Squirrels Raiding Your Bird Feeders? Here Are Ten Ways to Outwit Them.
Dec 01, 2000; ... For many Americans, Public Enemy Number One is a one-pound busybody with industrial strength teeth and a bushy tail: the gray squirrel. While killer bees and marauding bears occasionally capture headlines, the gray squirrel has been quietly disassembling the infrastructure in ...
Finding Splendor in the Tallgrass at One Of Our Newest National Parks.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000; ... Don Clark turns to the writings of early-twentieth-century author Willa Cather for words to describe his workplace. Leading visitors into the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in east-central Kansas, the park ranger says he feels like the boy from the East who, in the opening chapter of ...
Celebrating the Gift of Wildlife.(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2000 ... The gift of wildlife conservation, to which every National Wildlife Federation supporter contributes and from which each benefits, often finds its purest meaning in private moments. Early this year, Tom France had such a moment in Yellowstone National Park. Tom has led NWF's ...
TALES OF TWO ORCAS - The more scientists learn about killer whales, the more differences they find between resident pods and transient travelers.
Dec 01, 2000; ... ONE OF THE MANY THINGS killer whales do well is turn on a dime in tight quarters. Eva Saulitis, a marine biologist with the nonprofit North Gulf Oceanic Society in Alaska, has often followed the animals as they hunt for harbor seals in the rocky inlets of Prince William Sound. The ...
Watching Wolves On a Wild Ride - For 25 winners, researcher Rolf Peterson has tracked the turbulent twists and turns in the lives of Isle Royale's top predators and prey.
Dec 01, 2000; ... There are always surprises waiting when Rolf Peterson returns to Isle Royale National Park to spend the dead of winter in the company of the world's most famous gray wolves and the moose that are their bread and butter. For 25 years, Peterson, a wildlife ecologist at Michigan ...