Audubon, John James

Historically, wolves ranged from Canada well down into the United States, and from the West Coast to the East Coast. There are numerous accounts of wolf attacks on humans and livestock. One of the earliest on record was reported by the naturalist John James Audubon, and occurred about the year 1830.11 Attacks continued up through the 1990s, and one attack, in 1996, was the basis for an article in Reader s Digest.12 Healthy as well as rabid wolves, which some blame for all the attacks, have been identified at autopsy when attacking wolves have been killed and examined. 

In 1803 John James Audubon (1785-1851) came to America when he was a young man. His father wanted him to become a businessperson, but John liked to draw and paint. He loved to spend his time in the woods studying animals and plants and drawing their pictures in his journals. He decided to spend the rest of his life studying and drawing, and he became one of the best-known nature artists ever. His paintings of North American birds can be found in many museums today, and his books, filled with his beautiful drawings of birds and animals, continue to be sold all over the world. 

A journal is a book in which you write your secret thoughts, record all your fun adventures, and draw pictures of things you see. A journal can also be used to record, or set down in writing, things you ve learned or discovered. John James Audubon used a journal to record notes and draw pictures of the birds of North America. Wilderness explorers Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) and William Clark (1770-1838) used journals to record what they saw on their journeys out west in 1804-1806. Many things we ve learned about history and our natural world come from historical journals. Maybe someday the Nature Journal you make will become an important piece of natural history ... 

Kendall, Martha E. John James Audubon Artist of the Wild. Brookfield, CT Millbrook Press, 1993. 

John James Audubon Bridge (Fossier and Duggar 2007), carries four lanes of LA 10, crosses Mississippi River, Louisiana, USA. Pylon height 152.4 m (500 ft), longest span 482 m (1583 ft), clearance below 40 m (130 ft), reinforced concrete, opened May 5, 2011, TH/SL 0.23... 

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