Sierra magazine March/April 2005

2005 March/April

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Atlantic puffins off the Maine coast
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Where the Wild Things Are

Sierra club outings leaders show you where to meet musk oxen, alligators, whales, puffins, and more

By Dashka Slater

March 1, 2005

El Capitan
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Lessons in Granite

The school of hard knocks, as taught on the walls of Yosemite

By Daniel Duane

March 1, 2005

Unique Loess geology
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Prairie Islands

By the banks of the Missouri River, Pleistocene winds sculpted a landscape unmatched in America

March 1, 2005

Valle Vidal
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30-Hour Valley

Will the Forest Service trade away New Mexico's glorious Valle Vidal for 30 hours of natural gas?

By Paul Rauber

March 1, 2005