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Spring
2004
Vol. 57:2
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
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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
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