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CALIFORNIA WILD

Winter 2006
Vol 59:1

California Wild

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