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Aug/Sep 2009, vol. 47 no. 5
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	About This Issue Special Moments With Rare Species By Mark Wexler, Editorial Director

	Backyard Habitat How Austin Is Welcoming Wildlife By Andrea Abel

	Natural Inquiries Why the Chili Got Its Sting By Wallace Ravven

	Your Health Better Ways to Swat Mosquitoes By Hannah Schardt

	Rare Finds Stranger Than Fiction By Doug Perrine

	Action Report How National Wildlife Federation Is Making a Difference

	This Month on The Internet

	NWF View Preventing More Climate Impacts in the United States By Larry J. Schweiger, President and Chief Executive Officer

Rare Experiences
By John Pancake, Louis B. Parks and Mark Smith
Adding endangered or threatened songbirds to your life list is not that difficult, as long as you know where to go; consider these three possibilities

Habitat Saved
By Roger Di Silvestro
NWF actions are safeguarding taxpayer money by bringing higher standards of ecosystem protection to costly and reckless federal flood-zone construction policies

Feeling the Sting
By Laura Tangley
Are massive swarms of jellyfish a symptom of severe decline of the world’s marine ecosystems?

Young Heavyweights
Photograph by John Eastcott and Yva Momatiuk
A pair of five- to six-week-old southern elephant seal pups lounges on the icy beach of South Georgia Island

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