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Aug/Sep 2008, vol. 46 no. 5
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	About This Issue Harsh Conditions and Sheer Courage By Mark Wexler, Editorial Director

	Backyard Habitat Enhancing Your Fall Garden Experience By Doreen Cubie

	Action Report How National Wildlife Federation Is Making a Difference

	Bird-Watching Something to Crow About

	Science Sleuths Climbing Into an Unexplored Frontier By David Lukas

	Green Consumer The Power of the Big Green Purse By Diane MacEachern

	NWF View Can Democracy Catch Up to Climate Science? By Larry J. Schweiger, President and Chief Executive Officer

	Auklets Repel Insects, Attract Mates

	Bloom Time a Bust for Pollinators

	Romancing the Octopus

	Changing Fashions, Changing Mates

	A Little Help From Their Friends

	A Planet Frozen in Place

Hidden Treasures of the Wild West
By Paul Tolmé
Conservationists are seeking to safeguard 26 million acres of little known federal lands ideal for watching wildlife

Survivor
By T. Edward Nickens
New science is helping biologists understand how some bobcats can thrive in landscapes heavily altered by humans

Seabird Signals
By Doreen Cubie
Off the U.S. West Coast, several seabird species are suffering, and biologists suspect that global warming's impact on the Pacific is to blame

Restoring Louisiana's Broken Ecosystems
By Melissa Gaskill
A special NWF program is helping to restore Gulf Coast marshes and woodlands damaged by the 2005 hurricanes

The Beauty in the Beast
By Michael Lipske
During countless hours spent observing Africa’s Nile crocodile, a pair of photographers have documented the reptile’s strength, speed and surprising gentleness

Monkeys on the Mend
By Sharon Levy
Rain forest trees growing anew on Central American farmland are helping scientists find ways for monkeys and agriculture to benefit one another

Face Time
Photograph by Paul Nicklen
With razor-sharp teeth, powerful jaws and remarkable agility in the water, the leopard seal is one of Antarctica’s premier predators

Lynx Around the World

The bobcat (Lynx rufus) is related to three other lynx species; learn more about them

The Crow: A Brainy Bird

Smarter than many undergraduates, but probably not as smart as ravens, says ornithologist

A Little Help From
Their Friends

Survival rates of certain tree species may be boosted by animals that disperse seeds

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