ESA News and Views, the ESA blog (www.esa.org/esablog), welcomes your contributions on all things ecological. If you haven't read it lately, take a look at these recent postings: =20 -- an announcement of a National Academy of Sciences Arthur M. Sackler colloquium on Biodiversity and Extinction, at the Academy's Beekman Center in Irvine, CA =20 -- the latest Policy News from ESA's Public Affairs Office =20 -- and some thoughts on today's 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik, and what that meant for ecology =20 Send your news, thoughts, and musings on ecology to [EMAIL PROTECTED] =20 -- Cliff Duke, Coordinator, ESA News and Views=20
