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CALIFORNIA WILD

Summer 1995
Vol. 48:3

cover fall 1999

This atoll near Raratonga in the Cook Islands, an archetypal "desert" island, is populated by a variety of plants and animals whose ancestors each arrived here accidentally over hundreds of thousands of years.

Photograph by Robert Holmes.

Departments
Horizons
Prehistoric Paintings found in French Cave
Blake Edgar

Habitats
Ash Meadows in the Shadow of Las Vegas
Gordy Slack

 

Features
The Nature of Islands
Crucibles of Evolution
Robert I. Bowman

The Double Life of Islands
Some Confined, Others Set Free
Angelo Taranta

Not available online:
How the Kiwi Came to Stay
And Other Tales of Flightlessness
Barbara Sleeper

The Seven Macaques of Sulawesi
Radiation on an Intermittent Archipelago
Meredith F. Small

Mountain Isles, Desert Seas
T he Extraordinary Diversity of Arizona's Sky Islands
James Bishop, Jr.

Strange Lights Above Thunderstorms
Red Sprites and Blue Jets
David K. Hill

Editorial
Oases of Diversity
Keith K. Howell

Here at the Academy
Terry Gosliner and the Strategies of Sea Slugs
Cynthia Mills

Skyguide
Neptune's Dark Eye "Blinks"
Bing F. Quock

Featured Creature
Tasmanian Devils
Greg Morgan

Counterpoints in Science
Computers Come to the Stone Age
Jerold M. Lowenstein

Letter From the Field
Deflowering of Rose Atoll
Pepper Trail

Letters
Radon
DDT

Reviews
Noreen Parks on Reflections of Eden

Sources for Island Biology