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Beside the Snake River near Buhi, Idaho, commercial fish farmer Leo Ray has found the perfect place for raising catfish, tilapia, trout, sturgeon and alligators. The quality of water in [...]

U.S. ASEAN DIALOGUE The sixth Economic Dialogue between the United States and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN-- Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand) is taking place [...]

In two-dimensional space, the arrangement of things determines relationships between them. In the real world, the arrangement of continents and oceans shapes winds and currents, which influence climates, soils, and [...]

Marketers have come under increasing pressure to manage their spending more carefully and to account for its effects. This has spurred the development of new advertising measurement tools and prompted [...]

Dual HSTs make feller/buncher agile While some loggers still clear-cut their tracts--removing all growth--other modern forest managers practice environmental thinning instead. They go through and mark all desirable trees, then [...]

The Graduate School of Geography at Clark University instigated this global inventory of the long-term changes wrought by humanity on the biosphere. The project documents the major global transformations since [...]

The author of The Great Central Valley, the consummate regional book shows us how he did it. It is up to us to extrapolate for our regions. Stephen Johnson used [...]

The most startling image may be Landsat's 1988 panoramic firescape of Yellowstone National Park--wrapped around the cover where it can be big. As intriguing, though, is the title page, which [...]

We go to the big city occasionally. Our small home town has a fair population of 'hispanics' -- a community evolved from settled farm laborers and their families -- and [...]

Rotten distractions Please, no more columns like Ed Foster's 'They say ripened, I say rotted: a guide to vendor claims' (April 19, page 61). I'm doing serious and important work. […]

The U.S. Geological Survey's gorgeous computer-generated Landforms of the Conterminous United States (pictured on the back cover of WER #73) is now available in two greatly enhanced commercial versions, one [...]

The U.S. Geological Survey's gorgeous computer-generated Landforms of the Conterminous United States (pictured on the back cover of WER #73) is now available in two greatly enhanced commercial versions, one [...]

Sons and daughters of Odysseus ond Penelope will find familiar sailing on the waters charted in this enticing guidebook The 'Undiscovered' in the title is sort of a reverse Columbianism: [...]

Patrick Leigh Fermor, by turns youthful adventurer, linguist, classicist, and war hero, was the quintessential 'gifted amateur' when he set out with two companions, in the late 1940s, to journey [...]

I have an old school atlas someone saved from the trash for its quaint illustrations. It dates from 1890-something. One of its plates shows the World's Tallest Mountains all in [...]

Written for eight- to twelve-year-olds, this is an example of the increasing sophistication of environmental texts aimed at kids. One distinction of this book is that -- after chapters describing [...]

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including the article "People Like Us," by David Brooks, "Founders Chic," by H.W. Brands both in the September 2003 issue and a response from H.W. Brands to a letter to the editor about his article "Founders Chic" is given.

Presents letters to the editor related to several issues. Comments on the journalism on environment and politics; Discussion on the petrochemical as a substitute for lead; Role of the Lead Industry Association and the paint pigment manufacturers in maintaining public health.