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Contents: Smithsonian Horizons, Letters to the Editor, Around the Mall and beyond, Phenomena, comment and notes, A Special Issue on the Environment The PAST: Knowing the Wilderness was to love it…(..and loving it taught us to question what we were doing to it. Thus came the first conservationists.), The PRESENT: The country isn’t coming up roses, but we have made a lot of progress during the past two decades.), The PREVIEW: Out There Hucking the Trund (Environmental apocalypse tomorrow? Not if these and other hands-on apostles of change can help it.), On the Conecticut, a Sweet Smell of Success (The Clean Water Act made “the nation’s best-landscaped sewer” into a river that’s safe for fish and swimmers.), A Flight to Survival for Endangered Raptors (In Idaho, a successful effort to save wild creatures is under way at the World Center for Birds of Prey.), An the Subject of the painting is…Nature? (The great outdoors, as seen by a new crop of artists, is a far cry from the way Church and Bierstadt saw it.), “Alternative Agriculture’ is gaining ground (Natural fertilizers and pesticides, cover crops and rotation grow in use as farmers make nature an ally.), Rails-to-Trails: an exercise in linear logic (To hikers, joggers, birders – anyone who recreates in a straight line – an old right-of-way makes a great park.), Down in the Dumps (For a pungent intorduction to our throwaway society, try working for a week at your neighborhood landfill.), Trees aren’t mere niceties – they’re necessities (Planting the right trees in the right places can improve city life in ways we never before suspected.), Flushed with Pride in Areata, California (The city’s marsh and wildlife refuge doubles as the waste treatment plant. Now other town want the system.), ‘No Compromise in Defense of Mother Earth’ (Radical environmentalists resort to civil disobedience and more in a guerrilla war to save the wilderness.)
Issue: April 1990
Condition: Very Good