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CALIFORNIA WILD

Summer 1996
Vol. 49:3

cover fall 1999

With multiple food sources and a mild climate, California was once a paradise for grizzly, or brown, bears.

Photograph by Michael Sewell.

Departments
Horizons
Three's a Crowd
Pesticides Plummet in Sea Lions
Blake Edgar

Habitats
Chinese Mitten Crabs Discover San Francisco Bay
Gordy Slack

Wild Lives
Sea Fans
Gary C. Williams

Counterpoints in Science
The Bunny Club
Jerold M. Lowenstein

Here at the Academy
Traditions Alive
Gordy Slack

Features
Droppings From on High
In Tropical Forests Nothing Goes to Waste
Edward S. Ross

At Home in the Natural World
Naturalist's Almanac and Skyguide
What to look for this Summer

Not available online:
Once there Were Bears
The Rise and Fall of the California Grizzly
Doug Peacock

To Become a Grizzly
Bear Doctors of Native America
Martha E. True

Robert Stebbins
Interview with a Desert Patriarch
Philip Klasky

Life on the Edge
Ghosts of Grizzlies
Keith K. Howell

The Lonesome Evening Primrose
A Plant Bereft of Pollinators
Gary Paul Nabhan and
Stephen L. Buchmann

Suddenly, Planets
There is Some Place Like Home—Well, Jupiter
Seth Shostak

A Trail Less Traveled
A Not-so-Desolate Wilderness
Gerald Haslam

Letters
Piltdown Revisited
Skyguide

Reviews
John Rapko on The Others by Paul Shepard