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Vardaman's pell-mell efforts were also ridiculed by leading bird watchers. Les Line, editor of Audubon magazine, complained that Vardaman's venture "has more to do with sport than with nature or the beauty of birds. It's not an appreciation of nature-it's a game." Line likened Vardaman's pursuit to "counting out-of-state license plates...
Larsen's other civic passion was conservation. He donated 162 acres near his house in Fairfield, Conn., to the Audubon Society for a bird sanctuary, which the society named for him and his wife Margaret. He served on the board of the Nature Conservancy, which acquires and manages wild lands throughout the U.S., and he organized the Nantucket Conservation Foundation, a group that solicits donations of open land on Nantucket Island to keep it out of the hands of developers. The organization is a typical Larsen success. It now controls 17% of the island-and through the acquisition...
Boggs of Louisiana; Thornton Bradshaw, president of Atlantic Richfield Co.; David Freeman, chairman of the T.V.A.; Russell Peterson, former Governor of Delaware and president of the National Audubon Society; John Sawhill, president of New York University and former administrator of the Federal Energy Administration; Martin Ward, president of the plumbers and pipefitters union; Jerome Wiesner, president of M.I.T...
Early Homo sapiens decorated the walls of his caves with simple yet evocative drawings of the animals he hunted; later artists, from Leonardo and Albrecht Dürer through John James Audubon, captured not merely the physical appearance but the very essence of the creatures that interested them. The work of all these artists is handsomely presented in S. Peter Dance's The Art of Natural History (Overlook Press; unpaginated; $49.50), a handsome, oversized volume that does as much justice to painters and sculptors as it does to their subjects. Naturalists who can afford it will find this book...
...Audubon Society Book of Wildflowers by Les Line and W.H. Hodge (Abrams; 260 pages; $37.50). Audubon Magazine Editor Line has made an art form of nature photography in color. With Walter Henricks Hodge he has produced pages of California poppies (Eschscholtzia) that seem to burst into orange flame. Line has selected 181 photos (modestly including only two of his own but eleven of Hodge's), showing in many-hued detail the strange life of epiphytes like those that amazed Columbus, and the infinitely varied floral array to be found in jungles, pampas, steppes and deserts. Hodge's text...