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Spring 1999
Vol. 52:2
The claret-cup cactus grows on the dry mountain
slopes of the Mojave National Preserve, 1.6 million acres conserved by
the California Desert Protection Act.
Photograph by Jeff Foott.
Departments
Life
on the Edge
Spring's Eternal
•Keith K. Howell
Here
at the Academy
Rare Books
•Lisa Owens-Viani
Horizons
On the Farthest Horizon
•Blake Edgar
Habitats
Drowning Los Vaqueros
•Gordy Slack
Counterpoints
in Science
Why the Y
•Jerold M. Lowenstein
Letters
Saving Salmon
Albino Firs
Sutter Buttes
Reviews
•Christine Colasurdo
on Alien Invaders
•Peter Steinhart
on A Walk Through Time
•Editors' Recommendations
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Features
The
Next Wave
The tsunami in Papua New Guinea awakened fears of similar disasters elsewhere
in the Pacific. Evidence of historical tsunamis inundating the West Coast
of North America has scientists worried.
•Anne Rosenthal
Going
Native In The Garden
Long unappreciated, California's native plants are coming into their own.
Judith Larner Lowry, one of their leading champions, extols the advantages
of native gardening
•Jerry Emory
At Home in the
Natural World
Naturalist's
Almanac
What to Look for This Spring
•Lisa Owens-Viani
Letter
From The Field
Whtie-crowned sparrows are multilingual; they learn the dialects
of their migrant neighbors.
•Luis Baptista
Not
available online:
View From Silver Peak
Despite decades of determined opposition,
the California Desert Protection Act was passed five years ago. Now that
the dust has settled, was the legislation as successful as proponents
promised or the disaster opponents feared?
•George Wuerthner
Instrumental Revelations
Galileo Galilei's minor technical refinements to the telescope, together
with a whim to point his lens toward Jupiter, changed our place in the
universe forever.
•Richard Panek
A
Trail Less Traveled
North Table Mountain
•David Lukas
Wild Lives
Crab Spiders
•Chris Dietel
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