Corrections

Sierra, Sept-Oct, 2002

Lewis and Clark could not have seen a bald eagle "near the confluence of the Little Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers," as we stated in our May/June issue, because these rivers never meet. (Both are tributaries to the Missouri.) In our March/April issue, we gave EPA administrator Christie Whitman credit for upholding strict limits on arsenic in water.

That was an overly generous gesture. The praise should actually go to Congress, which forced Whitman to take this stance bypassing a 2001 appropriations bill prohibiting the EPA from weakening the standard.