Outdoor America Fall 2010
Outdoor
America is the award-winning quarterly
magazine of the Izaak Walton League of America.
Each issue is filled with entertaining and
educational articles about the conservation
work of League members. We also provide
in-depth coverage of broader conservation
issues such as national energy policy, urban
sprawl, and wetland loss. To start receiving
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Here's what you missed in this issue of the
magazine:
FEATURES
The Terrible Ten
Ten of
the most destructive invasive species and how
to slow their spread.
By Brad
Fitzpatrick
Crop
Mob: Will Work for Food
(PDF)
Volunteers can help sustain family
farms and the environment.
By Gwen
Steel
Turning
Up the Water Pressure
How
population growth is straining the world's most
vital resource.
By Russell
Sticklor
DEPARTMENTS
League Leader
Our Future
Is Today's Youth: Protecting the resources we
love means helping a new generation love them
too.
By Roger Sears, IWLA Executive
Board Chairman
Director's
Chair
Conservation Is Not Red or
Blue: Sound environmental policy can bring
together people from across the political
spectrum.
By David Hoskins, IWLA
Executive Director
Letters
Further Concerns
About Fracking * Viewpoints on "A View to a
Kill"
League Lines
A
Field of Greens: The Austin Chapter (MN) is
revitalizing the Cedar River . . . one rain
garden at a time * Scouting
for a Shot * Reflections of a First Timer:
Convention 2010 * Youth
Have a Field Day * Environmental
Education . . . for Teachers * Building
Skills and Friendships in a Summer Youth Trap
League * Watch the Wild
How
To: Recycle a Christmas Tree
(PDF)
The fresh smell of pine today will be
replaced by dry, dead branches and lots of pine
needles in January. But there are plenty of
uses for your tree after the holidays. Plus,
how to recycle other holiday decor.
Thinking Like a
Mountain
Take an Adult Hunting:
Taking adults afield is just as important to
the future of hunting as taking kids.
By
Bruce Ingram
Outdoor Ethics
A Price
on Their Heads: Is it ever right to offer money
for dead fish or animals?
By David Hart,
Field Editor
Hooks and Bulletins
Les
Monostory: Hero of Conservation * 2010 National
Scholarship Winners * Policy Pulse * Spotlight
on Grants * Izaak Walton League of America
Endowment 2010 Grants * Reading
Room (PDF)
Last Stand
Voices for
Conservation: League members can make a
difference – but
you have to speak up to be heard.
By Jim
Madsen, IWLA National President
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