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Fall 1998
Vol. 51:4
In the heart of Madagascar's Ranamofana National
Park in the eastern rainforest, a giraffe beetle takes flight.
Photograph by
Dong Lin
Departments
Life
on the Edge
California Antipodes
•Keith K. Howell
Horizons
The Scoop on Dinosaur Dung
•Blake Edgar
Habitats
Mining Mojave's National Parks
•Gordy Slack
Counterpoints
in Science
Being of Two Minds
•Jerold M. Lowenstein
Here
at the Academy
The Art of Science
•Gordy Slack
Reviews
•Leighton Taylor
on the Giant Squid
•Editors' Recommendations
Letters
to the Editor
Questions for Quincy
Only the Turtle Knows
Spirit of Mary Austin
Too Glossy by Half
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Features
No Time
For Lemurs
Entomologists from the California Academy of Sciences scour Madagascar's
eastern rainforest for the island's endemic insects and spiders.
•Keith K. Howell
The
Geology of Fine Wines
Napa Valley's varied soil, geology, and climate have combined to create
extraordinary wines.
•John
Livingston
At Home in
the
Natural World
Skyguide
Meteor Shower or Storm
•Bing F. Quock
Naturalist's
Almanac
What to See This Fall
•Monica McGee
Wild
Lives
Weedy Scorpionfish
•John E. McCosker
A
Trail Less Traveled
Sierra Buttes
•David Lukas
Not
available online:
Tracking the Unseen Cat
From fur, footprints and occasional scat, volunteers pursue phantom panthers
and other wild mammals that make their home in the shadow of San Diego's
freeways.
•Peter Friederici
Reunion with a Chinese
Redwood
Fifty years after the first American expedition to document the newly
discovered dawn redwood, the author returns to China to learn how the
tree has fared.
•Willian Gittlen
Song of Europa
If there is extraterrestrial life in our solar system, it most likely
exists beneath the surface of this Jovian moon.
•Seth Shostak
Science Track
Richard Tenaza
•Lisa
Owens-Viani
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