January/February 1998

Features

What Money Can Buy
Congress has a $900 million annual fund for purchasing new parks and preserves. So where ARE they?
by Reed Mcmanus

Wild at Heart
Down the Colorado River with "moderate extremist" Dave Foreman.
by B. J. Bergman

Into the Outdoors
Welcome to Arcata, California, where the government is green, the technology appropriate, and the political debate is far from over.
by William Poole

Departments

Letters

Field Guide
Willing & Able

Ways & Means
Unnatural Disasters by Carl Pope

Way to Go
California's Lost Coast by William Poole

Food for Thought
Bioengineered food by Mindy Pennybacker

Lay of the Land
Cowboy court
Recreational polluting
Republican charm

Home Front

Natural Resources
Books, Videos, Websites

Last Words
Has environmentalism become too extreme?