Natural Phenomenon: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com – Annotated Via Archinect.com. This fall, after eight years and almost half a billion dollars, world-famous architect Renzo Piano will complete the greenest museum ever built—the new California Academy of Sciences, in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park—housing its aquarium, planetarium, and natural-history museum under a two-and-a-half-acre “living roof.” by [...]

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Private land in national parks at risk for development – Los Angeles Times  Annotated Millions of acres could face commercial development because funds have not been allocated to purchase them, reports say. By Tami Abdollah, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer April 9, 2008 Millions of privately owned acres in National Park Service boundaries could be developed [...]

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A Newfangled Way to Count the Trees in the Park – New York Times Annotated By LILY KOPPEL Published: April 6, 2008 Marilynn K. Yee/The New York Times Mr. George used a clinometer to measure the height of a tree. He also used a G.P.S. device to locate trees. Mr. George was collecting information for [...]

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Three-Day Grand Canyon Flood Aims to Restore Ecosystem Annotated Amanda Lee Myers in Page, Arizona Associated Press March 6, 2008 More than 300,000 gallons (more than a million liters) of water per second were released from Lake Powell above the dam near the Arizona-Utah border. That’s enough water to fill the Empire State Building in [...]

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Winter’s Cheerleader, Yelling for Spring – New York Times Annotated       In the Garden     I first encountered Hamamelis mollis, the Chinese species, years ago, at Clark Botanic Garden, in Albertson, N.Y. It was a sunny January day, and this sprawling beauty — 5 feet tall and 20 feet across — lounged [...]

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