Nature & Environment
Thirty-five years of expert commentary on wildlife, ecology and eco-activism.

• yurts . . . old
  

  yurts . . . old March/April 1971 Blizzards with temperatures down to -50° have howled across the steppes and plains of east Asia for untold centuries . . . and, for many of those centuries, nomadic herdsmen have survived such storms — snug and warm — inside the traditio

• You Can Too Give That Animal An Injection
  

  You Can Too Give That Animal An Injection September/October 1978 Kansas State University veterinarian Randy Kidd says, "It's not as difficult as you might have thought to give a medical injection to either a pet or a barnyard brute." If you hate, detest, or just plain fe

• Wyoming's Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
  

  From Yellowstone—where the fire down below makes a fanciful surface display—mountain ranges fan out to frame the surveyor-perfect 90° corner of northwest Wyoming. To the east, the Beartooth and Absaroka; to the south, the Teton. Between these landmarks, in an area about the size of New Hampshire and Vermont combined, lies the largest intact ecological community in the lower 48, the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

• World Watch: Living Green and the Bottom Line
  The struggle for Native American health
• Working With Farmers Around the World - Green Gazette
  

  Forty-five years after the inception of the Peace Corps, the program still sends volunteers to 75 developing nations.

• Work Less, Play More, Save the Earth!
  

  Did you know that working long hours is bad for the environment? We produce more stuff, use more resources, and rely heavily on convenience items like fast food with plastic utensils and wasteful packaging. Around the world, 127 countries have a paid vacation law on the books, but United States isn’t one of them. Read about a campaign to change that.

• WOODSTOVES CERTIFIED BY OREGON DEQ (AS OF 4/20/86)
  

  WOODSTOVES CERTIFIED BY OREGON DEQ (AS OF 4/20/86) July/August 1986

• Woodstove Pollution
  In five short years, 28 manufacturers have risen to the challenge of woodstove pollution, including emission requirements, five rules for cleaner wood burning.
• Woodstove Pollution
  For years no news was good news, but now information is beginning to come in, including efficient equals dirty, possible salvation in technology and what may be done.
• WOODENSTOVE SMOKE
  Though there's a long way to go in categorizing and measuring all the effluents involved, research done in the past year has produced a wealth of new information contained herein.
• Wood Stove Update 1996
  

  Wood Stove Update 1996 October/November 1996 Issue # 158 - October/November 1996 High-tech stoves come of age. By Molly Miller Mark Rousseau Not too long ago, I found myself rubbing shoulders with wood stove and fireplace manufacturers and retailers at a meeting in a North Carolina inn. We left the door op

• Wise Web Sites - Green Gazette
  

  This holiday season, consider making a gift donation to a nonprofit group such as those listed below.

• Winter's WONDROUS Waterland
  

  Winter's WONDROUS Waterland December/January 2001 By Terry Krautwurst Photography by David Cavagnaro Once or twice each winter, a miracle happened on the sloping, snow-covered wheat fields of my grandfather's western-New York farm. A rare warm day would send meltwater spilling into a wide, bowl-shaped swal

• WINTER WONDERS
  Look carefully, and you'll discover that the coldest season is a great time to explore nature.
• WINTER LIGHTS
  

  WINTER LIGHTS December/January 1998 SEASONS by Fred Schaaf Many cultures have chosen to celebrate a holiday of cheer and lights when days are shortest, around the time of winter solstice. For the Jewish people, the holiday is Chanukah (sometimes spelled Hanukkah). The holiday commemorates an historical event —

• Winter Birdwatchers - Green Gazette
  

  This winter, more than 50,000 volunteers across North America will work together to identify and count wild birds as part of the Christmas Bird Count.

• WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY
  Top professional nature photographer shares some of the secrets of his trade, and his glorious pictures.
• Wild Wonders of Winter
  

  Super sliding river otters! Slow-burn sleepy black bears! Busybody bugs with scuba tanks! The eerie calls of screech owls! Monster-sized pine cones! Winter may feel like a cold, lifeless season, but the truth is nature never stops being active and unique. Here are some amazing, little-know curiosities of the winter wonderland.

• Wild Dreams and Steps to Reality
  Climbers undertake expedition to climb Mount Everest.
• Why We Need Wilderness
  

  Why We Need Wilderness August/September 2004 by Wallace Stegner Sept. 3 marks the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Wilderness Act, the landmark federal legislation that preserves more than 105 million acres of wild land throughout the United Sta

• WHOLISTIC FORESTRY:
  

  WHOLISTIC FORESTRY: January/February 1984 GROWING TIMBER THE SENSIBLE WAY There's a new lumbering technique afoot that combines using and caring for the woods. by Ray Raphael Would you like to grow timber on your land? Well, there are

• Who's Afraid of Y2K?
  

  From city service to the electric grid: our manual for sensible millennium planning

• Whiz Bang Quick City 2
  The Whiz Bang Quick City, an instant town of mostly cardboard domes and polyethylene inflatables erected for four days near Woodstock, New York. Read how Walker and Mangurian started this architecture project.
• White Park cow
  A photo of an Ancient White Park cow.
• Whippoorwills
  WHIP-poor-WILL... the voice of a bird almost never seen but almost always heard.
• Where The Wild Plants Are
  Resources for discovering and using native plants, including book list and authors.
• Where Have all the Trees Gone?
  

  Americans consume more than twice the wood and paper that Europeans use

• When Squirrels Fly
  Mother's Nature From its aerodynamics to its eco-dynamics, the flying squirret is a biological marvel.