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Editorial 



The Dunes 



To one who lives in a locality where vegetation runs riot, 

 where the hills are patched with forests and the valleys green 

 with the meadow lands, and the untilled fields are exuberant 

 with many colored weed blossoms, the dune lands look dreary 

 and hopeless, even though one can see the purple in the shadows 

 that allure the painter and the artist. 



How different seem the shifting sands to those who love and 

 understand Nature's ways. To such they are teeming with life 

 and there are evinced the many intricate ways of outreaching 

 vegetation to bind the sands and reclaim the region for plant 

 and animal life. Never was there a better example of the glamour 

 which enthralls the naturalist than is shown by the members of 

 the Chicago Nature Study Club in their love for and study of 

 the dunes of Lake Michigan, where they watch the struggle be- 

 tween the sand and the wind on one side and organic life on the 

 other. It is a region where Nature is ever house-hunting and 

 masterfully pitches her tents where she may not build of sterner 

 materials. These dime lands offer many problems of surprising 

 interest that will for years engage the energies of the very energetic 

 and enterprising members of this Nature Study Club. 



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