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Box 1058A Detroit,Michigan 48232 PUBLICATIONS ADVISORY COMMITTEE DonaldS. Dean, Chairman,Robert E. Holtz, NormanB. Abraham,Roy K. Baer, Jane B. Kahle ELI LILLYAND COMPANY Indianapolis,Indiana 45206 BOARD OF DIRECTORS, NationalAssociation of BiologyTeachers Officers LANE SCIENCE EQUIPMENTCOMPANY President:Manert H. Kennedy,BSCS, Boulder,CO New York, New York 10007 President-Elect:Stanley D. Roth, Jr., LawrenceHigh School, Lawrence,KS Past-President:Glen E. Peterson, MemphisState University,Memphis, TN Vice-President:Jerry W. Maurer,Loyola Academy, Wilmette, IL Treasurer:Jerry Resnick,Sheepshead Bay HighSchool, Brooklyn,NY NASCO, INC. Fort Atkinson,Wisconsin 53538 Directors Directors-at-Large:James L. Mariner,Fountain Valley School, Colorado Springs,CO; Thomas Mertens,Ball State University,Muncie, IN; Faith SARGENT-WELCHSCIENTIFIC COMPANY Hickman,BSCS, Boulder,CO; JuliaRiggs, Victoria College, Victoria, TX Skokie,Illinois 60076 RegionI: David P. 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Dean, Baldwin-WallaceCollege, Berea, OH Policy:Stanley D. Roth, Jr., LawrenceHigh School, Lawrence,KS WARD'SNATURAL SCIENCE ESTABLISHMENT,INC. FinancialAdvisory Committee: Jerry Resnick, Sheepshead Bay HighSchool, Rochester,New York 14603 Brooklyn,NY Contents Volume 41, No. 6: September 1979 AN OVERTURE Jerry Resnick 331 Involvementand Commitment-A Partnership ARTICLES Charles H. Butterfield 332 Estimatingthe Gray SquirrelCarrying Capacityof an Acre of Oaks Dorothy B. Rosenthal 336 A "Science and Society"Course for High School Students Downloaded from http://online.ucpress.edu/abt/article-pdf/41/6/1/37323/4446622.pdf by guest on 26 September 2021 Bonnie G. Woodall 341 EnvironmentalEducation-The Youth ConservationCorps Way AndrewAhlgren and Julie Ann Nelson 344 Neglect of BiologicalRhythms in High School BiologyTexts Rodney F. Allen and David E. LaHart 349 Environmental/EnergyEducation: An Ethical Perspective TEACHER-TO-TEACHER WilliamFerron 355 Genetic Regulationof EnzymeActivity: An Exercise in MolecularGenetics HOW-TO-DO-IT Leandro Taboga 358 Constructionof a SimpleRespirometer Constance M. Perry 360 Questions LloydE. Story 361 An AquaticCommunity Comes to the Classroom PERSPECTIVES EdwardJ. Kormondy 363 EnvironmentalAwareness and Education in Hungaryand Poland 368 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 370 AUDIOVISUAL REVIEWS 371 BOOK REVIEWS COVER: Conventionlogo by Nancy Schweitzerof Baton Rougeand CarolineH. Van Normanof New Orleans.New Orleansdrawings furnished by the New OrleansTourist and ConventionCommission. AmericanBiology Teacher, (ISSN 0002 7685) official journal of NABT,is publishedmonthly except June,July, and August. Institutional Subscription is $23a yearin the UnitedStates, Canada,Mexico; overseas subscriptionis $25 a year. 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