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National Wildlife Magazine
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


Features
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© MARK SMITH
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
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© NAJLAH FEANNY (CORBIS)
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
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© ESPEN REKDAL (SEAPICS.COM)
Feeling the Sting
By Laura Tangley
Are massive swarms of jellyfish a symptom of severe decline of the world’s marine ecosystems?
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© JOHN EASTCOTT AND YVA MOMATIUK
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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