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CALIFORNIA WILD

Summer 1997
Vol. 50:3

cover fall 1999

At Little Petroglyph canyon in the Coso Mountains on the northwestern edge of the Mojave desert is one of the most remarkable concentrations of rock art in the world.

Photograph by Fred hirschmann.

Departments
Here at the Academy
Spiderman
Keith K. Howell

Counterpoints in Science
The Stuff Such Dreams are Made of
Jerold M. Lowenstein

Horizons
Under the Volcano
Blake Edgar

Habitats
In My Backyard, Yes, But Not Me
Gordy Slack

Reviews
Robert Drewes
on Snakes

Features

Sprited Stones on Ancient Walls

Reading the Rock Art of China Lake
Thomas Curwen

A Feeling for the Fossil Record
An Interview with Geerat Vermeij
Gordy Slack

At Home in the
Natural World

Naturalist's Almanac
What to see this Summer
Gordy Slack

A Trail Less Traveled
Jughandle State Reserve
Rasa Gustaitis

A Letter from the Field
Into the Heart of Uganda's Impenetrable Forest
Robert C. Drewes

Not available online:
Dinosaurs in California?
Among the Cretaceous Volcanoes Roamed a Unique Fauna
Frank DeCourten

Closing in on Quasars
The End of a Violent Youth
Seth Shostak

Editorial
Fifty Years On
Keith K. Howell

Wild Lives
California Turret Spider
Leonard S. Vincent

Skyguide
Summer's Milky Way
Bing F. Quock

Letters
Stands for Squirrels
T. Rex
Lineage