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CONTINUING PUBLIC SUPPORT URGED FOR THE WILDERNESS BILL $ 
The Wilderness Bill now appears scheduled for enactment this year. Excellent 
hearings, fairly and expeditiously conducted, once again demonstrated the great 
public support for Congressional action on wilderness preservation--and also re- 
vealed a new willingness on the part of many former opponents to accept recently 
revised bills. 
The question now is: What kind of bill will be approved? There are many amend- 
ments now being considered, Limitations of space in the NEWSLETTER prohibit full 
description. The following bills have the full endorsement of conservation organ- 
ization leaders: H.R. 9070, 9101 and 9520. 
What is recommended now is that you write to your own Congressman and ask him to 
urge his colleagues in the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs to act 
promptly on the revised Wilderness Bill and make sure that the amendments advocated 
by conservation organization leaders are adopted. Time is short} Please write at 
once} 
RAPTOR PROTECTION IN THE UNITED STATES 
Although a great deal of public education about the place of hawks and owls in 
nature remains to be done, and the enforcement of existing laws protecting these 
birds is still much less than perfect, the last decade has seen great progress to- 
ward an enlightened view of these birds, Now 19 states protect all hawks and owls, 
26 protect at least some, and 4 states still protect none, Status of these laws 
in nearby states; 
States that PROTECT all Raptors States that Protect SOME Raptors 
except those in the act of (exceptions Listed) 
destroying poultry, etc. 
Illinois Towa (Accipters, Horned Owl) 
Indiana Kansas (Accipters, Horned Owl) 
Michigan Kentucky (Accipters, Horned Owl) 
Missouri Minnesota(Great Horned Owl) 
Ohio Nebraska (Accipters, Horned Owl) 
The Accipters include the Sharp-shinned and the Cooper's Hawk, and in the northern 
tier of states, the Goshawk also. 
HAVE YOU VISITED A PET SHOP LATELY? 
On a tip that a pet shop in Chicago was holding a Barn Owl for sale at $20.00, and 
that a Blue Jay and a Robin were also caged, one of our I.A.S. officers investi- 
gated. He found that the report was correct and notified the Illinois Conserva- 
tion Department in Chicago, Migratory birds are protected by federal law, Hawks 
and Owls are protected by the recent Illinois law, I.A.S, members can make 
certain that these laws are observed by pet shop owners and others, by occasion- 
ally visiting their neighborhood pet shops. Violations of the law should be re- 
ported, either by phone or letter, to the Illinois Conservation Department, 
Springfield, or 160 N, LaSalle Street, Chicago. I.4.5. would appreciate carbon 
copies of any written complaints, 

ITEMS OF AUDUBON INTEREST 
Six snow geese bagged by Washington state hunters last fall were found to have 
been banded in Russia by a team of Soviet biologists, The banding had been done on 
Wrangell Island, which lies above the Arctic Circle,550 miles northwest of Nome, 
Alaska,..H.R. 439, a bill to establish a John Muir National Monument where the 
great naturalist lived in California,has been reported favorably by the House 
Interior Committee, 
