National Wildlife Magazine http://www.nwf.org/NationalWildlife National Wildlife Magazine features en-us Copyright 1996-2008 National Wildlife Federation, all rights reserved. Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST Lessons of the Flowershttp://www.nwf.org/nationalwildlife/article.cfm?issueID=121&articleID=1576Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 ESTA pioneering experiment in the Colorado Rockies suggests that climate change models underestimate how fast the world is heating upnationalwildlife/issue/121/article/1576Seeing Birds at Their Besthttp://www.nwf.org/nationalwildlife/article.cfm?issueID=121&articleID=1577Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 ESTEvery year, thousands of images of avian behavior make their way across our desks; here are some of our recent favorites nationalwildlife/issue/121/article/1577Enjoying the Nightlifehttp://www.nwf.org/nationalwildlife/article.cfm?issueID=121&articleID=1578Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 ESTWhen the sun sets, a new cast of animals appears on the backyard stage; homeowners can provide food for pollinators and other nocturnal visitorsnationalwildlife/issue/121/article/1578America’s Forgotten Foresthttp://www.nwf.org/nationalwildlife/article.cfm?issueID=121&articleID=1579Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 ESTFound only in the Deep South, longleaf pine woodlands have dwindled to about 3 percent of their former range, but new efforts are under way to restore themnationalwildlife/issue/121/article/1579Scenes from a Desert Dramahttp://www.nwf.org/nationalwildlife/article.cfm?issueID=121&articleID=1580Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 ESTThe tight-knit yet highly contentious social structure of the Kalahari’s meerkats has made them the unlikely stars of a television soap operanationalwildlife/issue/121/article/1580Shining a Light on Glass Frogshttp://www.nwf.org/nationalwildlife/article.cfm?issueID=121&articleID=1581Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 ESTIn a remote, Costa Rican rain forest, a self-taught scientist is multiplying what we know about these tiny and elusive amphibiansnationalwildlife/issue/121/article/1581Antarctic Affairhttp://www.nwf.org/nationalwildlife/article.cfm?issueID=121&articleID=1582Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 ESTOn a December day on Antarctica’s Cockburn Island, Dutch photographer Jan Vermeer found a pair of blue-eyed shags engaging in the rituals of courtshipnationalwildlife/issue/121/article/1582