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...Sacramento mountains checkerspot butterfly is unique, found in all the world only on 2,000 acres of high meadow in the village of Cloudcroft, N.M. (pop. 768, altitude 8,640 ft.), and the adjoining Lincoln National Forest. The 2-in. checkerspot colorfully floods Burro Street, Cloudcroft's main drag, every summer, and it takes its scientific name--Euphydryas anicia cloudcrofti--from the town that shares its habitat...
...catch them while they are still caterpillars. Deep fried and dipped in a little honey mustard sauce, they are delicious," quipped a columnist for the Daily News in nearby Alamogordo, admitting a particular fondness for those from Cloudcroft, which are "sort of spicy." Long-term negotiations to annex national-forest acreage for municipal use would be complicated by Endangered Species Act protection. "People are not happy," says former village trustee Gary Wood. (See the top 10 green ideas...
...they see it, for good reason. The village has been through this ordeal before--twice. In 1993 the Mexican spotted owl, which nests in the Lincoln forest, was declared threatened--a ruling that, combined with a slumping timber market, "killed the logging industry," according to Wood. And in 1999 an environmental group, the Center for Biological Diversity, began petitioning on behalf of the checkerspot, pointing out that it was at risk from development, off-road vehicles and livestock-grazing--or as Nicole Rosmarino, wildlife-program director of WildEarth Guardians, which joined the cause in 2007, puts it, "smelly cows, noisy...
...went back to his Massachusetts farm, Thomas Jefferson settled at Monticello, James Madison kicked back at Montpelier, Andrew Jackson went down to his plantation near Nashville and Martin Van Buren took it easy at his farm, Lindenwald. John Tyler settled into a relaxed life at his Virginia plantation, Sherwood Forest. Then he joined the Confederate Congress, essentially becoming a traitor to the nation he once led. (See pictures of how Presidents age in office...
...first glance, the Round Robin seems typically stuffy. Suits gather at the circular bar and the ambiance is, well, avian: mallard duck colors, dark, paneled wood and forest green walls. The place oozes elegant opulence, a throwback to the rich history of its home at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel, the "residence of presidents." A steady stream of mainstay figures in American history - Abraham Lincoln, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bill Clinton, Aretha Franklin, Elizabeth Taylor and Barack Obama, to name a few - have tread the halls of the Willard and frequented the Round Robin...