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Spring/Summer 2009	Issue 7.1 Cosmology and Credit in the play "Background' A Neurobiologist's Brainy Canvas 2009 Editors' Prizes Winners Stephen Trimble on the Wallace Stegner Centennial More poems, prose and pleas than you can shake a wet black bough at Whither Isotope	Issue 7.2 Our final double-issue is coming soon!
Spring/Summer 2008	Issue 6.1 Two From Down Under: A Faster Kind of Sandstone & Shackleton’s Photographer Comes Back Home 46 Views of My Fuji Construction of a Rainbow Leap Second, Websites in the Desert, Skinny Dipping—and More	Fall/Winter 2008	Issue 6.2 At the Edge of Sight: The JPL Paintings John Janovy’s Journeys in Science and Literary Prose 2008 Editors’ Prizes Winners Animalcules and Other Little Subjects Mountain Eros, Pipestone, The Most Peculiar Sequence, Prometheus at Yellowstone— and more
Spring/Summer 2007	Issue 5.1 David Gessner's Foxy Field Notes The Rope Swing, the Swastika, and the Oldest Whale Remembering Mount St. Helens Kate Breakey's Still Lives Geyerscapes, Thermodynamics, Colons—and More	Fall/Winter 2007	Issue 5.2 Announcing Project V.E.C.T.O.R.L.O.S.S. & the Dawn of Vernacular Witnessing Young Emily's Herbarium Trace Elements Sonnets Beam Up Scotty! Tasty Counterfeit Salmon, Two from Ryukyu, The Provision Tree, Treadmills-and More
Spring/Summer 2006	Issue 4.1 Roger Mitchell Finds Another Use For Marl Eric Alan’s Images of Wild Grace Coyote on a Cloud of Nitrogen A Biology Slide Show, Guerilla Gardening, Emily and Einstein –and More	Fall/Winter 2006	Issue 4.2 Caroline Van Hemert: Pink Noise Inside and Out [Web-only bonus essay Homeland Security] Janaki Lennie’s Starless Starscapes May Swenson Finds a Maiden In the Grass 2006 Editors’ Prizes, Billions and Billions of Stanzas, Bamboo, Wrecklamation—and More
Spring/Summer 2005	Issue 3.1 Winners of the First Annual Editors’ Prizes Lisa Couturier Tracks Big Apple Wilderness and Communes with Vultures Painter Richard Gate Reclaims the Cosmos Zoom Lenses, an Empty Sea, Tautogs, Hounds of Light–and More	Fall/Winter 2005	Issue 3.2 Voices From the Ice: ANTARCTICA Ceiridwen Terrill On Driving a Species From Extinction Painter Margaret Elliot’s Echoes of Another World Garnets, Ecdysis, Reactor Woods, Desert Fires–and More
Spring/Summer 2004	Issue 2.1 Gods, Astronomers and Mauna Kea: An essay by John Q. McDonald Images of the toxic and microscopic: The Art of Jane Catlin What’s to be done about Montana’s Smallest Fish? Mary Swander Skips the Long-Horned Sheep Chasing Whales, Roadkill Here, Landfill There, Mad Max—and More	Fall/Winter 2004	Issue 2.2 Scientists & Writers Respond to Sallie Tisdale’s “Sexual Planet” Evoking New Zealand’s Landscapes: The Ambiguous Reality of Pat Unger Why Nature is for Losers A Mad Dash for a Dead Duck X-Rays, Spades, Zen Trout-and More
Spring/Summer 2003	Issue 1.1 Where Desire and Relief Meet at Last: Essays by Catherine Reid Sex, History, and Science in Jonathan Holden’s “Dr. Strangelove” The Inspired Logics of the Post Surrealists Pattiann Rogers on Wonder in Science and Poetry	Fall/Winter 2003	Issue 1.2 Walking with Elephants: A Photo-Essay by Cheryl Merril John Price Discovers Why Snow Geese Don’t Winter in Paradise A Biologist’s Passage to Renewal Ectoplasm, Dragonflies, Virga, Reasons for Lawns–and More