Volume 12 Issue 34
August 19 - 25, 2004

Inside:

Editorial
Lest Newcomers Become Nuisances

Letters to the Editor
Another Luna Moth Sighted
Pipelines Scarier than Wal-Mart

Dock of the Bay
Roasting and Toasting Jack Smith
Starfish Returned
Appreciation
Ask the Plant Professor
Way Downstream


EarthTalk
At 60, Smokey Bear Nears Retirement

Bill Burton on the Bay
Of Squirrels, Mice and Me

Earth Journal
The Maryland (aka Common) Yellowthroat

Flickerings
The Manchurian Candidate – Jonathan Parker

Curtain Call
Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre’s Crazy For You -Reviewed by Dick Wilson

On Our Cover:

Making the Grade
by Sandra Olivetti Martin

With the Bay at Stake, Does Political Balance In the Chesapeake Bay Commission Make for Murky Waters?