contents: North East: Land-use issues: Future use of the woodbridge research facility -- Mason neck addition -- Woodbridge refuge: challenge or opportunity -- Recommend reuse for the woodbridge research facility -- Minority report letter to the secretary of the army -- Northeast: Environmental future: Management of the white-tailed deer in Pennysylvania -- The White-tailed deer: a keystone herbivore -- Attitudes of Pennysylvania sportsmen towards managing white-tailed deer to protect the ecological integrity of forests -- White-tailed deer management at Gettysburg National military perk and eisenhower national historic site -- Urban deer contraception: the seven seven stages of grief -- Pennysylvania deer statistics -- Canada: Alternative energy resources: James Bay hydroelectric project,Canada -- The La Grande Complex development and its main environmental issues -- James Bay and northern quebec agreement and subsequent agreements -- Economic and social development of the aboriginal communities -- increases in fluxes of green house gases and methyl and mercury following flooding of an experimental reservoir -- Great: Lakes. Water resources: Green lakes cleanup -- A strategy for virtual elimination of persistent toxic substances -- Comments on the Cananda-United states strategy for the virtual elimination of persistent toxic substances in the great lakes basin -- Great lakes clean-up welcomed, but feared -- Pollution, thirst for cheap water threaten Great Lakes, study says -- Southeast: Biodiversity: Controlling nonindigenous species in Florida -- Why we should care and what we should do -- Fido-munching toads take Florida by leaps and bounds -- Florida: a wacky wild kingdom -- Strangers in paradise, part iv,managing nonindigenous species:policy and implementation -- Management in national wildlife refuges -- Plant management in everglades national park -- Management of state lands -- Florida's biological crapshot with carp -- Will beetle bombs recapture everglades-or overrun it? -- 4,600 acres daily lost to kudzu, loosestrife, other noxious weeds -- "Exotic" species tab is $97 billion so far -- Midwest: Soil Conservation: Avoiding another dust bowl -- Conserving the plains: the soil conservation service in The Great Plains -- The Great Plains conservation program, 1956-1981: a short administrative and legislative history -- Summary report: 1992 national resources inventory -- The buffalo commons,then and now -- Comment on the future of The Great plains: not a buffalo commons -- The Bison are coming -- Northwest: Wildlife management: Managing timber in the pacific northwest -- The spotted owl controversy and the sustainability of rural communities in the Pacific Northwest -- Having owls and jobs too -- The birds-the spotted owl: an environmental parable -- Timber owners cut a deal to preserve wildlife habitat -- U.S considers 80% increase in Sierra logging -- Great Lakes: Solid Waste disposal: Solid waste disposal in Chicago -- An alternative to the northwest incinerator -- Cancer risk assessment for the inhalation of metals from municipal solid waste incinerators impacting Chicago -- Community groups protest westside incinerator -- Chicago recycling coalition 1994 annual report -- Chicago recycling coalition 1995 annual report -- Chicago recycling coalition 1996 annual report -- The 3 R's of solid waste and the population factor for a sustainable planet -- Northeast: Acid rain: Minimizing acid rain in the adirondacks -- Compliance report-acid rain program -- Emissions trading of sulphur dioxide: the U.S experience -- Adirondacks fighting acid rain battle -- Lilco's megawatt betrayal -- Bill targets sale of pollution credits -- Pollutants have trees screaming -- EPA admits: acid rain program wont save the Adirondacks -- Adirondack council seeking help to retire 5,000tons of sulphur dioxide -- Southwest- Air quality : Improving air quality in Los Angeles -- Smog city case studies: Cleaner fuels and cleaner cars -- The False promise of electrIc cars -- New vehicles now less efficient than junked ones -- Southeast: Wildlife management: Managing bluefin tuna in the Western Atlantic: Bluefin tuna in the west atlantic: negligent management and the making of an endangered species -- Historic rationale, effectiveness, and biological efficiency of existing regulations for the U.S. atlantic bluefin tuna fisheries -- Northwest: Toxic wastes and pollutions: What if there is another oil spill in Prince Willian sound, Alaska? -- The two faces of the exxon disaster -- The Exxon Valdez oil spill: final report, state of alaska response -- Status report on the Exxon Valdez oil spill trustee council.