Where the Land Meets the Sea
The Delicate Fabric of the World’s Coastal Regions is Being Torn Apart
Un-Natural Selection
After years of being hunted, snared, and picked-off from airplanes, Alaska’s wolves (6,000 at last count, by far the biggest population of any state) are going under the knife. In 1996, Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) biologists began sterilizing alpha (dominant) males and females in the Fortymile region near Fairbanks, in the hopes […]
Troubled Homecoming
Through Reintroduction Programs, Predators Are Returning to the Wild, Challenging Our Ability to Co-Exist With Them The pack of six gray wolves raise pointed noses to the wind, catching the scent of an intruder invading their frigid Wyoming territory. Up on a hill, behind a snow-capped boulder, a mountain lion crouches, whiskers raised, and growls […]
Howls of Protest
Rodger Schlickeisen, president of Defenders of Wildlife (see Conversations, this issue), got it right when he called the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park “the greatest wildlife restoration effort in our nation's history.” So why is a federal judge ordering that the wolves be removed? E's cover story this issue is about predators and […]
Merging Home and Office
Telecommuting is a High-Tech Energy Saver In what has to be considered a major change in American corporate life, more and more office workers are “commuting” in their bathrobes, moving from bedroom to home office to begin their work day. Telecommuting is a “no brainer,” right? How could it not be good that millions of […]
Chattanooga on a Roll
From America’s Dirtiest City to Its Greenest “Chattanooga,” proclaims a 1924 promotional brochure whose cover features artistically rendered belching smokestacks, “is a divine masterpiece in the making.” Unfortunately, the roaring fires of this industrial riverfront city came to symbolize something other than progress. By 1969, just before the first Earth Day, the Environmental Protection Agency […]
Rodger Shlickeisen
Defending America's Wilder Ways Dr. Rodger Schlickeisen, at the helm of the 50-year-old Defenders of Wildlife since 1991, has by now grown accustomed to controversy in his work defending some of America's biggest predators—including grizzly bears, wolves and mountain lions. In 1995 and 1996, Defenders scored a triumph by negotiating legal entanglements and vociferous local […]
Heroes, Sneakers and Bug Dust
Your cover article “Talking Trash” in the March/April 1997 issue said there were only two curbside recycling programs in the country in the early 1970s. Where were they? —Bonnie Emerick, Chicago, IL According to Neil Seldman, co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, the two programs were in Marblehead, Massachusetts and Madison, Wisconsin. Seldman says […]
Manatee Mania
Is Florida Loving Its Endangered Marine Mammals to Death?