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Audubon
View
The Mississippi River watershed is one of our most remarkable natural
resources—and one of our most troubled.
by John Flicker
Editor's
Note
For a century, Audubon has led the way in bird conservation.
by David Seideman
Letters
Field
Notes
Tallying the savings from saving nature; textbook censorship; Texas prairie
dogs under fire; the end of landfills?; and more.
Seeking
Refuge
Fragments of Change
Of Friends and forests, on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
by Jerry Goodbody
True
Nature
Make Way for Mushrooms
Forget cyberspace. Welcome to the real World Wide Web!
by Mary M. Woodsen
Incite
Trout Are Wildlife, Too
Native trout are being swamped by hatchery fish. So why are sportsmen
and environmentalists just letting it happen?
by Ted Williams
Earth
Almanac
The winter woods: return of the fisher; waxwings made merry by berries;
question marks on the wing; Christmas ferns.
by Ted Williams
Backyard
Locking Up Your Land
Here's how you can protect your piece of nature forever.
by David Dobbs
Audubon
in Action
Tribute to Marie Aull; patron of the cranes; state of the states.
Editor's
Choice
New and noteworthy books. Plus, for the holidays, books for families.
One
Picture
Farewell to a photographer who scaled many heights.
by Les Line/photo by Galen Rowell
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bird
conservation
Blue
Jewels of the Pantanal
Fourteen years ago, when she first saw
hyacinth macaws in the tropical wetlands of southern Brazil,
Neiva Guedes was told the species was headed toward oblivion.
Then and there, she made the survival of these birds, the world's
largest parrot, a personal crusade.
by Susan McGrath/photography by John Huba
dispatch
Powder
Keg
When oil and gas companies look at Wyoming's
Powder River basin, they see the mother lode. But now a battle
is brewing, and the situation is threatening to blow sky high.
by Keith Kloor/photography by Raymond Meeks
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endangered species
Project
Gutpile
Even as biologists battle to save the California condor, it is being
pushed ever closer to extinction by carrion laced with lead from
hunters' bullets. Today a bold new campaign is rallying sportsmen
to the condors' cause.
by Jane Braxton Little/photography by Misha Gravenor
citizen science
Putting
Birds on the Map
All over the country, citizen scientists are
flocking to the woods, helping to identify habitats crucial to the
future of birds. What they discover could end up determining the
fate of many of our most threatened species.
by Keith Kloor/photography by Katherine Lambert
Special
Pullout Section: An Introduction to IBAs
by Frank Graham Jr. Illustrations by David Allen Sibley
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