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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Is Florida Loving Its Endangered Marine Mammals to Death?
Activist Phone Companies Give to the Cause and Reduce Rates, Too The FAX machine, the World Wide Web and email-all tied to telephone lines-have made possible a revolution in American work habits. The convenience and cost savings of working from home means even the environmentally unaware are increasingly trading in their driving shoes for stay-at-home […]
Numerous studies have attempted to link breast cancers with environmental factors, including electromagnetic fields (EMFs) and chlorinated pesticides.
