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Republican Riders in the Saddle Again	Donella H. Meadows	24 Jul 2000	Global Citizen
I don't get it. Why are the 24-hour news media, always desperate for gripping stories, reporting every hour on the Camp David summit, though, as I write this column, they have no access to what's really going on? Why don't some of those eager reporters move over to Capitol Hill to cover the constantly changing, fully public, ludicrous, horrifying, astounding, comical, fascinating, and, I would argue, far more important Annua ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Harry Reid, Missouri River, New Mexico, politics, Rio Grande River, wildlife (all these topics)

Howl I saw the best wolves of my generation destroyed by madness	Susan Zakin	20 Jul 2000	Soapbox
Gray days for wolves. Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Protection for the gray wolf, totem animal for the Clinton administration's conservation legacy, is likely to be ratcheted down from endangered to threatened, thanks to a proposal unveiled last week by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Its announcement was a fitting coda to eight years of an administration that we kept wishing would do better. ...
Topics: national parks, politics, ranching, United States, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Here Today, Gone Tomalley What's killing off lobsters in Long Island Sound?	Christine Woodside	20 Jun 2000	Main Dish
Richard A. French, a specialist in animal disease at the University of Connecticut, often comes to work wearing a lobster tie tack he bought at a shellfish conference. He's had lobsters on the brain lately, particularly the mystery of why hundreds of thousands of lobsters have died within the last year in Long Island Sound. In a sea of troubles. Photo: OAR/NURP. In the western end of the ...
Topics: fishing, New York, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Down for the Count? There aren't many right whales left	Gail Krueger	09 Jun 2000	Main Dish
Chris Slay wears bib overalls and wire-rimmed glasses, occasionally recites poetry, and watches right whales for a living. Once more into the breach. David Wiley, National Marine Fisheries Service. After this year's dismal right whale calving season, the poetry that comes to Slay's mind is darkly pessimistic. The rarest whale of them all may be getting rarer. The Northern right whale, the most endangered of th ...
Topics: endangered species, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

The Lion's Share It's high time people stopped shooting mountain lions	Susan J. Tweit, Writers on the Range	10 May 2000	Soapbox
V It's legal to kill a mountain lion in most Western states if it threatens your safety or the safety of your property (including livestock and pets). Williams thus had the legal right to kill that lion. But did she have the moral right? My, what a big kitty. Photo: Predator Defense Institute. One of the realities of mountain lions is that they are predators. Biologists e ...
Topics: politics, West, wildlife (all these topics)

Alternatives to Elephant Poaching	Suzy Becker	28 Apr 2000	Ha.

Topics: wildlife (all these topics)

The Coast Is Clear -- of Salmon Atlantic salmon are even worse off than their Pacific cousins	Wayne Curtis	12 Apr 2000	Main Dish
To catch an Atlantic salmon in the Machias River back in the 1940s -- and we're talking a legitimate salmon here, maybe 30 or 40 pounds -- didn't require a knack with rod and reel, nor even the wily patience of the angler. Mostly what you needed was decent aim with a rifle or pitchfork or jig hook. The mighty Machias. Or for that matter, a good-sized river stone. "I reme ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

More Internet Smut A scientist fights back against exotics	Lisa Jones	11 Apr 2000	Main Dish
The Western U.S. has many well-known problems -- overgrazing, rampant development, Garth Brooks look-alikes. But one troublesome issue that hasn't gotten much attention is cheatgrass, an exotic weed that arrived here in the 1890s and has since taken over an area the size of Montana. Cheatgrass never prospers? Photo: Russel Stevens/Chuck Coffey, Noble Foundation. Because cheatgrass (aka: downy brome, junegrass, a ...
Topics: Utah, wildlife (all these topics)

What Would Costas Christ Do? Preaching the gospel of ecotourism	Lisa Jones	03 Mar 2000	Main Dish
Costas Christ has a knack for handling sticky situations. I got a glimpse of this as I was making my way home from an ecotourism conference in Senegal in the early 1990s. Along with a number of other conference participants, I was stuck in the airport in the capital city of Dakar. For some unknown reason, the ticket agents had stalled us, so we were doing what American ecotourists often do when the Third Wo ...
Topics: Africa, education, marine life, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, travel, Uganda, wildlife (all these topics)

Whither the Wolves? New Mexico ranchers are howling over reintroduction efforts	Michael Robinson, Writers on the Range	02 Mar 2000	Soapbox
Two years after the first 11 Mexican gray wolves were released to much fanfare in the Apache National Forest of southeastern Arizona, and a year after an additional 22 wolves were freed in 1998, only seven remain in the wild. A lone wolf. Photo: J. & K. Hollingsworth, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The problems the wolves face today are the same as those that ...
Topics: Arizona, New Mexico, politics, ranching, US Fish and Wildlife Service, US Forest Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Grouse, Grouse, Grouse Will this odd bird be the passenger pigeon of the 21st century?	Elizabeth Grossman	28 Feb 2000	Main Dish
Conservationists have long been known for their staunch defense of cuddly and charismatic megafauna, and in recent years for their spirited battles on behalf of lowly, unseen creatures and enigmatic microflora. Now they're going to bat for a species that doesn't fit neatly into either of those camps and might best be described as, well, funny-looking. Geeky, yet endearing. Pho ...
Topics: wildlife (all these topics)

Dr. Ruth, Meet Dr. Doolittle The ins and outs of matchmaking for cranes	Erik Ness	14 Feb 2000	Main Dish
Put that chocolate down, hold the wine and roses, and take yourself back to the dark side of Valentine's Day. You remember, that day your sophomore year in high school that began with the discovery of a new 18-megawatt zit and ended in tragedy when [insert teen proto-love interest here] said they wouldn't go out with you if you were the last person on the planet. I know, this harsh remembrance is ...
Topics: sex, wildlife (all these topics)

Dead in the Water	Donella H. Meadows	14 Feb 2000	Global Citizen
Here's a story of the global economy at its worst and maybe also at its best. Early this month a cry of alarm came over email from my friend Zoltan Lontay in Hungary. The Hungarian news had just announced an enormous fish kill in the Szamos river on that country's eastern border. A wave of cyanide was moving down the Szamos and into the Tisza, Hungary's second largest river. No one knew what had happened, but there was talk of a mine, operat ...
Topics: globalization, Hungary, mining and drilling, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

There Goes the Neighborhood	Suzy Becker	24 Jan 2000	Ha.

Topics: placemaking, population, wildlife (all these topics)

Who Dropped the Green from the GOP? A Republican berates his party for abandoning the environment	Karl Hess, Jr.	11 Jan 2000	Soapbox
Republicans are handing Democrats a green Y2K. So far, GOP presidential contenders have all but conceded the environmental issue to Al Gore and Bill Bradley. Rather than fight for the conservation mantle that was once the GOP's, they seem content to not ask and not tell when it comes to the nation's land, air, water, and wildlife. At best, Republican environmental polic ...
Topics: Colorado, land stewardship, politics, ranching, United States, West, wildlife (all these topics)

Birds of a Feather Don't Always Stick Together Wind power is dividing enviros and spurring some odd alliances	Peter Asmus	10 Jan 2000	Main Dish
The National Audubon Society hosted a news conference in September 1999 to denounce Enron Wind Corp.'s plans to build a wind farm near the town of Gorman in Southern California, with enough capacity to power 40,000 homes. "It is hard to imagine a worse idea than putting a condor Cuisinart next door to critical condor habitat," said Audubon Vice Pres. ...
Topics: California, energy, renewable energy, wildlife, wind power (all these topics)

My, What Pretty Teeth You Have	Suzy Becker	10 Jan 2000	Ha.

Topics: wildlife (all these topics)

WWF holiday party	Suzy Becker	27 Dec 1999	Ha.

Topics: World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

In Other Words ...	Donella H. Meadows	20 Dec 1999	Global Citizen
A while ago I wrote a column full of solemn statements from august scientists and other wise persons, warning that we are trashing our planet at a sickening pace. The august persons didn't say "trashing" or "sickening." They spoke of "adverse consequences" and "significant geopolitical risk." An Alert Reader (to steal a phrase from Dave Barry), a retired professor of French named Chuck Ferguson, who s ...
Topics: climate, energy, food and agriculture, pollution and waste, water bodies and marine life, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Fairway to Heaven A gardening guru gives new meaning to a golfing green	Lisa Jones	07 Dec 1999	Main Dish
In a world beset with environmental and economic horrors, a golf course is a disturbing sight. Okay, it's not as disturbing as an oil slick on Prince William Sound, or the Cuyahoga River bursting into flames, or the coral reefs off Sri Lanka bleaching and dying. Evil green monster (a traditional golf course). But the proliferation of golf courses is symptomatic of the suburbanization of once-rural p ...
Topics: green living, Vermont, wildlife (all these topics)

Seventy	Josh Sevin	24 Nov 1999	Counter Culture
percent by which global energy use has increased since 1970 percentage of the world's commercially important marine fish stocks that are fully fished, over-exploited, or depleted percentage of the roughly 3,000 plants identified as having cancer-fighting properties that grow in rainforests percentage of irrigation water in developing nations that never reaches crops due to evaporation or runoff percent by which nations have cut their consumption of ozone-depleti ...
Topics: green living, marine life, wildlife (all these topics)

Wigging Out	Suzy Becker	08 Nov 1999	Ha.

Topics: wildlife (all these topics)

Not the Only Fish in the Sea Are efforts to protect the dolphin putting other fish in a sea of trouble?	Rick Gaffney	28 Oct 1999	Main Dish
There were predictable cries of protest from some conservationists who focus on charismatic megafauna when revised standards for use of the "dolphin safe" tuna label were announced by the Commerce Department in April. Though the new rules stipulate that no dolphins should be killed or seriously injured, they do let canners label their product "dolphin ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Sean O'Brien, W. Alton Jones Foundation		08 Oct 1999	Dispatches
Sean T. O'Brien, Ph.D., is a circuit rider for the W. Alton Jones Foundation in Charlottesville, Va. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Friday, 08 Oct 1999 CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. As the week draws to a close and I prepare for my next trip (to Berlin, Sassenberg, and Utrecht), I look back on the past few days and hope that I have given you a good picture of what life is like as a circuit rider. Remember, of course, that there are many modes for circuit riding, but w ...
Topics: David Suzuki, Dispatches, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Sean O'Brien, W. Alton Jones Foundation		07 Oct 1999	Dispatches
Sean T. O'Brien, Ph.D., is a circuit rider for the W. Alton Jones Foundation in Charlottesville, Va. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Thursday, 07 Oct 1999 CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. Today I will write about Haida Gwaii, after yesterday's photo teaser. First, what is it? The islands now popularly called Haida Gwaii (the traditional name given them by the Haida people) have long been shown on maps as the Queen Charlotte Islands. They form an arrowhead-shaped landmass ...
Topics: David Suzuki, Dispatches, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

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