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THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 



Bird study is fast becoming a recognized and important part of the 

 nature study in our primary and advanced education. Adults are becom- 

 ing more and more interested in bird study as a recreation. Constantly in- 

 creasing demands are being made for illustrated lectures on birds and their 

 economic value. 



At the head of Lake Michigan, where has grown up one of the greatest 

 centers of population in the world, destined to become the greatest factor 

 in the industrial life of the middle west, here at almost the center of popula- 

 tion of the United States, are we not entitled to this breathing spot and 

 out-of-door school of nature for the children and adults of the future, a 

 school in which can be studied the botany, geology, ornithology and the 

 history of this great region whose physical beginnings are inseparably 

 linked with the glacial period of America, and whose history goes back to 

 the time of La Salle, Marquette and Joliet? 



Give to us and the birds, the Sand Dunes of Indiana as a place of 

 peace, rest, recreation and national protection, where we may go to enjoy 

 the things that are the inherent right of both the wild life and the human 

 population. Where we can be invigorated by the clean north wind sweep- 

 ing down across over 300 miles of Lake Michigan and where we may watch 

 the sun rise and set without a veil of dust and smoke to hide its glory. 



THE SURF ON THE DUNE SHORE 



