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Spring 2004
Vol. 57:2

California Wild Spring 2004 cover

In the shadow of Mount Konocti, Clear Lake, the oldest lake in California, is shedding its muddied image.
Photograph by Nicholas Elias.

Departments
Life On The Edge
Old Haunts, New Mysteries
Keith K. Howell

Horizons
Stone Age Climate Change
Kathleen M. Wong

Habitats
Clean Car, Dirty Bay
Gordy Slack

Counterpoints in Science
Lying Eyes, Masks of Smiles
Jerold M. Lowenstein

Letters to the Editor
Longline Fishing
Evo-Devo
SUVs

Here At The Academy
Army Ants on the March
Suzanne Ubick

Reviews
Christine Colasurdo
on Moore essays
Pamela Turner
on Bears
Norman Penny
on Dragonflies
Editors' Recommendations

Features
Forgotten Lake
With its spas and hot springs, California's oldest lake was once the state's most fashionable resort. Now, after bouts with environmental degradation, Clear Lake simmers
with life once again.
Juliane Poirier Locke

Material Girls
The oldest profession took a page
from the lives of animals. Insects, hummingbirds and penguins will
all swap sex for material gain.
Maggie McKee

Dances With Cranes
Prancing and bowing to an ancient minuet, George Archibald helped
save the endangered whooping crane. Since then his efforts to conserve cranes have flown ever higher.
Dave Brian Butvill

At Home in the
Natural World

In Pursuit of Science
Showbirds In Fourth Grade
Greta Lorge

Skyguide
Saturn's Rings
Bing F. Quock

Naturalist's Almanac
What to Look for This Spring
David Lukas

Not available online:
The Irascible Reverend Greene
A contempt for East Coast academics fueled a rebellion by early California botanist Edward Lee Greene.
Elizabeth Rush

Dark Energy
Astronomers reveal the unseen hand of dark energy—and explain why it could spell a lonely end to the universe.
Oliver Baker

Wild Lives
Dodder—a serial strangler.
Judie Marks

Birds' Nests And Beethoven
Among her late father's photographs,
a woman finds baby birds and bread molds, watermelon snow and decaying leaves, and a man's sense of wonder.
Kathleen Dean Moore