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VOL... &y*NOL*21 Bird Protection - News - Conservation October 1964 
Charles Lappen, NEWSLETTER Editor, 424 Green Bay Road, Highland Park, Illinois 
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Ye all know now that the WILDERNESS BILL has been Signed by 
President Johnson, The NEWSLETTER presents two interesting articles 
on this subject by Raymond Mostek, President, and Betty Groth, 
Vice President, Conservation, 

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When President Lyndon Johnson put his name to the National 
Wilderness Preservation Act, the Statutory basis for a national / 
System of wilderness was finally established, In a display of bi- 
partisan unity, the 88th Congress placed this law on the books after | 
a decade of bitter wrangling and heart~breaking frustration, Only | 
one Congressman — and he apparently had commitments to the ranchers H| 
back home in Texas - voted against the bill, In the Senate, only 12 
votes were cast against it -- equally divided between Democrats and | 
Republicans, The Democratic nay-sayers were: Dodd (Conn,), Eastland 
(Miss,) Hayden (Ariz.), Long (La.), Stennis (Miss.), and Thurmond 
(S.C.). The G,O.P. Senators opposed were: Cotton (N.H.), Dominick 
(Colo.), Tower (Texas), Goldwater (Ariz.), Dirksen (I11.), and Jordan ) 
(Ida.). Special plaudits are in order for Senator Humphrey, who 
Sponsored the bill as early as 1956; to Senator Thomas Kuchel and to 
Senator Clinton Anderson, Chairman of the Senate Interior Committee, 

On the House side, leadership was entrusted to Republican Rep, 
John Saylor, of Penna, His last two amendments -— to protect the 
San Gorgonio Wild Area in California, and to give the Secretary of 
Agriculture greater administrative power - won by comfortable margins, 
Rep. Barratt O'Hara, of Illinois, was also an early Sponsor of the 
bill and gave it much vocal Support on the floor, BIOLOGY Ligpany 
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What caused Rep, Wayne Aspinall, Chairman of the House Interior 
Committee, to become a "champion" of wilderness when the whole country 
was aware that he was one of the greatest roadblocks to passage? First, 
he was greatly moved by the death of President Kennedy, who had called 
him earlier during that fatal week and asked for action on the bill, 
Aspinall had also become concerned with his "national image"; he had been 
denounced in the nation's press; his fellow Congressmen had become ine 

