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Once a fire gets started in those tinder-like leaves and grasses, it 

 snuffs out a lot of wild life and destroys a lot of shelter "before you can "bring 

 it under control. 



During last November and December, the rangers saw hundreds of pheasants, 

 and quail, and other upland birds driven from their homes by fire. Many of the 

 birds fled to safety. But some of them got caught in the flames before they 

 could escape. 



You can still see the tell-tale scars of those and other fires as we pass 

 along through the wooded sections. 



But we can't look long at these charred and fallen trees. For, in the 

 few moments before ^-^e leave the ref^age, I want to show you something different. 

 This time, it isn't birds or animals. No, it is some prehistoric mounds. Eight 

 where the ITisconsin river flows into the MississipiDi , we find about a hundred 

 mounds built by the Indians. Most of them are effigy mounds; that is, they rep- 

 resent such things as the eagle and the bear, which the Indians looked upon as 

 the sjTnbols of strength. Some folks say the Indians built the mounds to com- 

 memorate a great battle. 



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Anyway those mounds are there for you/see when ever you visit our Upper 

 Mississippi River Wild Life suid Fish Refuge. 



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MNOIJN CEMENT ; And that concludes our trip through the Upper Mississippi River 

 I7ild Life and Fish Refuge in the compaiiy of Uncle Sem' s Na^turalists . The United 

 States Biological Survey will bring you another story about the G-reat Out-o'- 

 Doors at this same time two weeks from today. 



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