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Keen eyesight lends precision to the belted kingfisher's dives for fish.
Photograph by Dwight Kuhn.

Departments
Director's Message
Greening by Example
•Patrick Kociolek

Counterpoints in Science
Design for Ignorance
•Jerold M. Lowenstein

Here At The Academy
The Making of HOTSPOT
•Roberta Brett

Reviews
•John McCosker
on Salmon
•Robert Irion
on Astronomy Chronicles
•David Lukas
on Raptors and Fog
•Kevin Cutler
on Wild Dogs

Features
Sexual Selection:
Defending Darwin’s Theory
From jumbo elephant seal bulls to gender-bending wrasses, evidence
abounds supporting Darwin’s theory of sexual selection.
•Michael T. Ghiselin

HOTSPOT: California on the Edge Vernal Pools
Deer and antelope are no longer at play in California’s Central Valley. So conservationists rely on cattle to trim vernal pools for natives.
•Kathleen M. Wong

DNA Barcoding
Today Is Too Soon
•Peter Roopnarine
Tomorrow Is Too Late
•Brian L. Fisher

At Home in the
Natural World
Skyguide
A Sprinkling of Stardust
•Bing F. Quock

Naturalist's Almanac
What to look for this Winter
•David Lukas

Not available online:
A Curse on Cape Ivy
Scientists are battling exotic invaders by matching up old adversaries.
•Heather C. Liston

Far-Out Engineering
Most spacecraft will win no kudos for sleekness. But those odd-looking appendages and bizarre bulges are designed for different worlds.
•Robert Irion

Wild Lives
The King of Fishers
•John Martalo