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Fish &Wildlife News U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Spring 2007 Fish & Wildlife News Special Rachel Carson Centennial Anniversary Issue what’s inside Departments News Briefs / 2 Our People / 36 Transitions / 36 Faces in the Field / 32 Honors / 40 Fish Tales / 33 In Memoriam / 43 Features Nature’s Public Servant / 8 Rachel Carson was our century’s most articulate voice for a harmonious balance between humans and nature. By Mark Madison Sounding the Alarm / 12 The seeds of the Service’s Environmental Contaminants program were planted with Silent Spring. By Bruce Woods, Philip Johnson and Valerie Fellows ‘One of Us’ / 14 Rachel Carson’s conservation legacy continues to influence the Service today. On Eagle’s Wings / 20 The Service’s Endangered Species program conserves imperiled wildlife and protects the “web of life.” By Valerie Fellows Conservation in Action / 22 By Martha Nudel Returning to the Water / 26 On the cover: Rachel Carson By Valerie Fellows and Joshua Winchell near her home in Silver Spring, Maryland, 1962. Focusing on Nature / 30 ALFRED EISENSTADT / GETTY IMAGES By Terri Edwards (ILLUSTRATION) TIM KNEPP 2 / Fish & Wildlife News Spring 2007 from the director Remembering Rachel I suspect most of you have seen the famous photo of As Service employees, we continue to embrace the Rachel Carson leaning against a tree, resting during principles she championed—sound science, respect a hike near her summer home in Southport, Maine. for all living things and the need to connect people, It was taken in 1962, the same year Silent Spring was especially children, with nature. But perhaps the published. Though her face looks weary, she seems greatest gift she left us is the notion that one person, at peace in nature—more like a weekend birder working with passion and a strong sense of purpose, than the “mother” of the modern environmental can indeed make a difference. movement. But if you look closely, you can see eyes burning with a sense of purpose. This issue of Fish & Wildlife News is dedicated to Rachel Carson’s work and legacy: her ability to Silent Spring not only sounded the alarm about the transform scientific facts into plain language that effects of chemical pesticides in our environment and spoke to generations of conservationists; her lifelong the “web of life,” it also ushered in a new era of dedication to instilling a “sense of wonder” in children environmental awareness. The book eventually led and all people; and how she continues to inspire to a ban on DDT—which enabled species such as the Service employees to do the right thing even under bald eagle to come back from the brink of extinction— the most difficult circumstances. These pages reflect and spurred the creation of the Environmental who Rachel Carson was and who we are—a family of Protection Agency in 1970. After she died of breast people dedicated to the resource, respectful of those cancer in 1964, Rachel was posthumously awarded who went before us and committed to carrying out the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor our trust responsibilities. the U.S. government can bestow upon a civilian. In honor of this centennial, the Service is hosting events around the country and developing special environmental education programs and exhibits. Perhaps the greatest gift Rachel Carson For a complete list of programs and events, visit <www.fws.gov/rachelcarson>. left us is the notion that one person, It is fitting that we recognize one of history’s greatest working with passion and a strong sense conservationists, but Rachel Carson also should be remembered as a compassionate human being. When of purpose, can indeed make a difference. I look at that photo of her leaning against the tree, I think of Rachel’s endless fascination with nature and her gift for sharing it with children. In her book, In this centennial year of her birth, we not only The Sense of Wonder, published a year after her remember Rachel Carson for her great achievements death, she wrote that, “A child’s world is fresh and but we also embrace her as one of our own. As a new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. writer-biologist and chief editor with the Service from It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed 1936-1952, Rachel authored and contributed to dozens vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and of agency publications, including the “Conservation awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we In Action” series, which eloquently described the reach adulthood.” Refuge System’s role in protecting the environment and maintaining our wildlife resources for future I hope our sense of wonder never dims. I hope it fills generations. Silent Spring was informed by nearly our work and we pass it on to generations of kids two decades of field and laboratory research who otherwise may never know nature’s blessings. conducted by Service biologists on the effects of And I hope that Rachel Carson’s passion and clear- pesticides on wildlife, primarily birds and their eggs. eyed vision will live on in each and every one of us. Spring 2007 Fish & Wildlife News / 1 news briefs Literary Legacy Natural Laboratory global warming, and will extend In her book, Silent Spring, Rachel to personal attitudes toward the Carson called attention to the natural world. harmful effects of the pesticide DDT (dichloro-diphenyl- Titles in the schedule range from trichloroethane) on the natural Carson’s first book, Under the Sea world. The Channel Islands off Wind, in which she reveals her the southern California coast unique ability to present intricate provide an ideal laboratory in scientific material in clear poetic which to study the effects of DDT language that captivates readers; on wildlife, learn from our past to Courage for the Earth: mistakes and restore the delicate Writers, Scientists, and Activists balance of nature. Celebrate the Life and Writing of Rachel Carson, an anthology The Channel Islands, sometimes edited by Peter Matthiessen referred to as the Galapagos of that was released in April. North America, are composed of eight islands located within Silent Spring, Carson’s most one of the richest marine and well known book which alerted terrestrial environments in the the public to the dangers of world. Home to many endemic pesticides and sparked a plants and animals, these rcbookclub.blogspot.com firestorm of controversy in its islands offer an insight into the wake, will be showcased as magnifying effects of DDT The Fish and Wildlife Service Service historian Mark Madison; well as some of her lesser through the food web. The story and Friends of the National Houghton Mifflin Executive known texts on the sea, and of the bald eagle on the Channel Conservation Training Center Editor Deanne Urmy; author the truly inspirational Islands offers one of the best have launched the Rachel Carson and professor of Environmental The Sense of Wonder. illustrations of DDT’s profound Online Book Club to honor the life, Studies at Middlebury College, impact on wildlife. legacy and literary genius of the John Elder. The Rachel Carson Online Book Service’s most famous employee. Club is sponsored by the Friends Historically, there were more than “This online discussion will be of the National Conservation 35 bald eagle nesting areas on Beginning in March and such a fabulous way to engage Training Center. Participation in the Channel Islands, making it continuing through November and bring together people from the online book club is open to a stronghold for the species in 2007, the online book club many different communities to everyone. For more information, southern California. Beginning focuses on the life and work of focus on the life and legacy of please contact Anne Roy, in the late 1940s and continuing Rachel Carson including her role Rachel Carson,” said Anne Post National Conservation Training through the early 1970s, as a female leader in science Roy, NCTC conservation librarian. Center at: <[email protected]>, millions of pounds of DDTs and and government. Through the “The discussion should be or Nancy Pollot, Oregon Fish & polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) study of her writing, the Book incredibly interesting given the Wildlife Office at: <Nancy_ were discharged into the ocean Club will provide an opportunity stature of some of our moderators [email protected]>. View the book off of southern California through for dialogue and discussion of and the depth of knowledge that club Web site at: <rcbookclub. a wastewater outfall. Feeding on current environmental issues they will bring to the online chat.” blogspot.com>. ■ a steady diet of contaminated in light of Carson’s legacy marine mammals, seabirds, and Each month, a moderator will fish, the bald eagles on the Several distinguished moderators start the book discussion with Anne Roy, conservation librarian, Channel Islands began showing will participate in the online an opening statement. Then, National Conservation Training the effects of DDT, although discussions. Author and Carson in dialogue with book club Center, Shepherdstown, they were miles away from the biographer, Linda Lear launched participants, the moderator West Virginia; Nancy Pollot, outfall. The birds began laying the first session in March. Among will provide weekly installments information and education abnormally thin-shelled eggs that other moderators in the line-up and add comments on the specialist, Portland, Oregon. broke easily in the nest. By are: marine biologist and Director discussion throughout the month. the early 1960s, bald eagles of Duke Marine Laboratory, Cindy Discussions will encompass Van Dover; U.S. Fish and Wildlife current environmental issues like 2 / Fish & Wildlife News Spring 2007 news briefs disappeared from the Channel Catalina Island. In 1987, the first agencies that includes the “The fact that two bald eagle Islands due to human impacts, bald eagle eggs were laid on Service, is responsible for using chicks hatched without the help primarily the introduction of DDT Catalina Island, but they soon these funds to restore the natural of humans on the northern and other contaminants into the broke in the nest.
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