The California Academy of Sciences ran an exhibit ca. 1990-1991 called "Vanishing Deserts" -- the entrance of the exhibit featured a life scale motorbiker coming off the top of a sand dune on one wheel... We caught it from all the usual suspects -- motorcycle clubs, mining interests, etc. (-- some not insignificant donors included). The responses included campaigns of phone calls and letters to the Academy, articles in biker magazines, letters to trustees, letters to sponsors of the exhibit and ultimately letters to corporate sponsors of the Academy. (The exhibit occurred in the context of the battle for the California Desert Protection Act...) We invited critics into the Academy to visit the exhibit and talk. Part of our response was to put up a "democracy wall" where letters were posted and visitors could post comments. And I personally am proud we did it. Leaving aside flirtations with sacrilege, iconoclasm and libertarianism anybody else taken any risks on environmental issues...? (This is no light matter any more -- a forest ranger recently had his house bombed over east of the Sierra -- his wife and daughter were home at the time and narrowly escaped injury...) Tom Tom Moritz Academy Librarian California Academy of Sciences Golden Gate Park San Francisco, California 94118 415-750-7101 -- VOICE 415-750-7106 -- FAX Internet: [log in to unmask]