Steller sea lions were once the primary prey of the killer whale. Now this marine mammal, protected under the Endangered Species Act, may face an even more threatening foe: the Canadian fish farmer. Driven by a shortage of pollock and herring stocks, sea lions are infiltrating coastal fish farms, where plentiful salmon are easy prey. […]
If You Build It, Will They Come? When Hurricane Mitch opened up a prison in the port city of La Ceiba, Honduras in 1998, several escaped prisoners scrambled up the Cangrejal River and spent the night in the newly inaugurated visitor center on the boundary of Pico Bonito National Park. It was certainly not the […]
WIC, A Federal Food Program, Gets Supplemental Common Sense.
WIC, A Federal Food Program, Gets Supplemental Common Sense.
WIC, A Federal Food Program, Gets Supplemental Common Sense.
WIC, A Federal Food Program, Gets Supplemental Common Sense.
Frederick Law Olmsted had little idea how prescient he was when he said in 1827 that the midtown Manhattan park he was creating be the “lungs of the city.”
WIC, A Federal Food Program, Gets Supplemental Common Sense.
Understanding population growth in California and its environmental consequences.
It’s About the Numbers Last year, Roy Beck and Leon Kolankiewicz released a report entitled Sprawl in California that used U.S. Census data to challenge some of the traditional assumptions about why cities spill beyond their borders. "California’s population boom has been the number one factor in the state’s relentless urban sprawl, even though most […]
