Vintage NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Magazine Vol.160 No. 6 December 1981 with SUPPLEMENT

A Vintage copy of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Magazine Vol.160 No. 6 December 1981

Featuring:

Mount St. Helens Aftermath

Plants and animals are taking tentative foothold in the devastation left by last year's cataclysmic eruption. More remarkably, the blown-out volcano itself nurtures bacteria, reports Rowe Findley. With photographs by Steve Raymer.

Pandas in the Wild

From a joint World Wildlife Fund-Chinese research program, U. S. zoologist George B. Schaller brings back unprecedented photographs of giant pandas roaming the forests of their native Sichuan.

Orange, a Most California County

Exploding from farmland into glossy exurbs, the coastal swath south of Los Angeles embodies one manner of American dream. By Judith and Neil Morgan and photographer Vince Streano.

The Ocean

Jacques-Yves Cousteau, from a lifetime spent in deep-sea research, finds both challenge and hope for man in "the all-encompassing sea."

New World of the Ocean

In the past three decades science has revealed startling new knowledge about the seven-tenths of earth covered by the seas. Yet man has barely crossed this watery frontier. Samuel W. Matthews tells of an extraordinary age of discovery.

Life by Night in a Desert Sea

A host of rarely seen creatures rises in the dark off Hawaii to feed near the surface. By naturalist Kenneth Brower, with photographer-divers William R. Curtsinger and Chris Newbert.

President's Report to Members

Gilbert M. Grosvenor reviews the year past and year ahead, the Society's new Atlas, headquarters building, and TV Specials. In 1981, he notes, membership reached a record 10,850,000.

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