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...sight of it was enough to make one outdoorsman cry and Uncle Sam shell out $10 million to protect its habitat. Dubbed the Holy Grail of bird watching, the ivory-billed woodpecker was for decades thought to be extinct, but a team of scientists last week reported seven confirmed sightings within the past 15 months in Arkansas' Cache River National Wildlife Refuge. Researchers warned, however, that "we cannot rule out the possibility that all of our fleeting encounters involved the same bird." Meanwhile, Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton urged bird watchers not to flock to the refuge and "love...
...Pope appeared determined to tread. Three months after his election, he boarded a plane for the Dominican Republic and Mexico on the first of scores of global pilgrimages that established the exultant rhythm of his papacy. People expected the youngest Pope in 132 years--a 58-year-old outdoorsman described by an Australian newspaper as "built like a rugby front-row forward"--to be energetic. Yet even St. Paul, the archetypal evangelist, might have wondered at John Paul's 1989, a fairly typical year, featuring stops in Madagascar, Reunion, Zambia, Malawi, Norway, Iceland, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, South Korea, Indonesia...
Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker prefers not to be confined to a gym. An avid outdoorsman, he wrote in an e-mail, “I like any kind of exercise that causes scenery to go by at a rate that depends on how hard I work out.” Those activities include biking, jogging, sculling, roller blading, kayaking and hiking...
...refreshing to see a conservation problem on the cover, rather than war or politics, subjects that seem to dominate the headlines these days. I am an avid outdoorsman and work outside most of the time, but I had never in my 34 years seen a cougar?until last week. Driving to work one morning, I saw a big cougar leap out in front of my car, and in three bounds it was across the road and into a farmer's field. I have never seen a more graceful animal. That cougar is living within a stone's throw of farmhouses...
...species that competes with Homo sapiens for space and food is doomed. Karla Kellenberger Stow, Ohio, U.S. It was refreshing to see a conservation problem on the cover, rather than one about the war or politics, subjects that seem to dominate the headlines these days. I am an avid outdoorsman and work outside most of the time, but in my 34 years I had never seen a cougar until last week. Driving to work one morning, I saw a big cougar leap in front of my car, and in three bounds it was across the road and into a farmer...