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...births were a triumph for a controversial program that has had conservationists pecking furiously at each other. Over the protests of the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth and other environmental groups that oppose any human intercession while the condors fight for survival, scientists from the National Audubon Society and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service entered the birds' habitat in California's Los Padres National Forest last February and March. They snatched two fertilized eggs from two roosts and transferred them to incubators at the zoo. The eggnaping, the scientists hoped, would protect the embryos against tumbles...
...CABLE WEEK will not be widely offered on newsstands or by general subscription. Instead, the magazine will be sold mainly to cable households, at 69? a copy. The inaugural issue was mailed to cable viewers in five cities: Fort Lauderdale and Pompano Beach, Fla.; Audubon, N.J.; Arlington, Texas; and Peoria, Ill. The magazine is scheduled to add 25 markets and to reach 600,000 subscribers by year's end. Said Publisher Daniel Zucchi: "This is a cooperative marketing venture with cable operators. Every time we add a cable system, we add a subscriber base." Providing "system-specific" listings requires...
...wind and water have all been hailed as cheap, renewable and benign alternatives to oil, coal and nuclear plants. Now comes a warning from a bastion of environmentalism, the National Audubon Society, that even ecologically favored, so-called solar sources of energy can have serious drawbacks...
...Russell Peterson, Audubon Society president, sums it up, "Even with solar energy, there's no such thing as a free lunch...
...Audubon Action...