Contents

COVER : Up close with albatross on the Bounty Isles.
CONTENTS - Features :
SCRUTINY OF THE BOUNTIES [Thick with seabird and seals, and bereft of vegetation, the remote Bounty Island are just a cluster of spray-drenched rocks south-east of the South Island];
INTO OBLIVION [Native grayling were once abundant in our waterways, and considered excellent eating, but there have been no definite sightings for 80 years];
DIGGING UP THE WEATHER [Worried about global warming? Over the last 60 million years our climate has ranged from frigid to steamy, and it’s generally been warmer than it is now];
DANCING DOWN THE DECADES [The rugby sidestep may command a more enthuisastic following than the foxtrot, but social dancing has held a solid place in the social fabric of New Zealand since the first would-be settlers set sail from mother England];
LIE BACK AND THINK OF BRITTEN [We look back over the life of Christchurch designer John Britten, most famous for his exciting motorcycles, who died from cancer exactly 10 years ago];
CONTENTS - Departments :
LETTERS; EDITORIAL; VIEWPOINT [Energy scenarios]; BLAKE TRUST; TREES [Wenderholm]; GeoNEWS [Regenerating bush, archiving the net]; KIWI; WEATHER [Hills in the way]; BOOKS [Hooked, going up going down];