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Editor's Note
A wildlife crisis at an Audubon center.
by David Seideman

Audubon View
Diversity: Key for the environment, and for environmental groups.
by John Flicker

Letters

Field Notes
Lifeline for a dying lake; teenage toxic avengers; high-tech trash mounts up; a new theory about some brainy birds.

Education
Hungry for Change
To Alice Waters and the kids of the Edible Schoolyard, saving the environment is an affair of the stomach.
by Jennifer Bogo

Incite
Wanted: More Hunters
America's 33 million white-tailed deer have created a conservation catastrophe. Unfortunately, there's only one solution.
by Ted Williams

Earth Almanac
Spring has sprung, with backyard "wolves," a real-life "monster," a parade of puffins, and the "gem of the woods."
by Ted Williams

Audubon in Action
From New York's concrete jungle to a world of birds; Santa Fe's Randall Davey Audubon Center; state of the states.

Birds
The New Bird Bible
Seven hundred experts plus two indefatigable editors adds up to the newest member of ornithology's hall of fame.
by Frank Graham Jr.

Journal
Moon River Romance
Love and lore in Florida, amid pelicans and wood storks.
by David Standish

Reviews
Charting New Territories
John Muir's last journey; an Atlantic passage; food activism.
by Christopher Camuto

One Picture
One of nature's most awesome and ephemeral masterpieces.
by Les Line ~ photograph by Lynn Davis

conservation
Living on the Edge
The twice-yearly migrations of this hemisphere's shorebirds are among nature's greatest spectacles. But if we don't figure out how to protect the wetlands that support these long-distance fliers, their future is in grave doubt.
by Don Stap ~ illustrations by David Allen Sibley

 

healthy neighborhoods
Going the Extra Yard
Chuck the chemicals! Trash your sprinkler! Entertain some wildlife! Meet three habitat heroes who prove that conservation can be easy, and that there is hope for the backyards of America.

photo essay
Springing to Life
The year's first buds bring relief to the long gray of winter. But a bud is more than a pick-me-up; it's a survival mechanism. James Balog scales the heights to record this seasonal extravaganza in an all-new way.
photography by James Balog
text by Edward Kanze

 

citizen science
The Treasure of Iwokrama
It's rugged and remote; its rainforest and raging rivers are home to jaguars and harpy eagles. In a little-known corner of Guyana, a unique partnership between scientists and a local Indian tribe is safeguarding a forest's future.
by Scott Weidensaul
photography by Daniel Borris

 
 
 

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