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VOL. 3, NO, 1 Bird Protection - News - Conservation October 1963 
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PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY THE ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY 
Mrs. M. G. Ericson, NEWSLETTER Editor, 
9300 N. Crawford Avenue, Skokie, Mlinois 





WILDERNESS BILL STALLED IN HOUSE COMMITTEE 

The Trustees for Conservation, with offices in San Francisco and Washington, D.C., 
has sent letters to major conservation groups in the nation, alerting them to the 
need for more consideration and activity to move the National Wilderness Preserva- 
tion Act (¢.4) out of the House Interior Committee. The bill passed the United 
States Senate by an overwhelming margin of 73-12 back in April 1963. Congressman 
Wayne Aspinall, Chairman of the House Interior Committee, hails from Colorado. He 
has been subject to heavy pressure from csttle, mining and timber interests to 
keep the bill in committee and prevent a vote on the floor of the House where it 
is certain the bill would pass by a loerge margin. A Democrat, Aspinall has 
defied the President, who has supported the Wilderness Bill and has made a recent 
tour of the nation in behalf of outdcor conservation projects, 
Senator Maurine Neuberger (Oregon), a strong supporter of the \ilderness Bill, 
has declarcd that delays in Congress have permitted the filing of 537 claims by 
miners since Sept. 6, 1961. Sen. Neuberger Sseys she is dismayed by the erosion 
of our wilderness heritage. Under existing law, wilderness type areas in the 
national forests are subject to entry under the mining statutes in 11 Western 
States, The Wilderness Bill would modify this entry. Senate Bill #4, if passed 
by Congress, would confer congressional protection on wild areas in our national 
parks, national forests, and national wildlifc refuges. It would create no new 
taxes nor new bureaus. Under present congressional rules, a committee chairman 
can prevent a biil before his committee from coming up for a vote simply by re- 
fusing to hold hearings. Cong. Charlotte Reid, who hails from Aurora in Kane 
County and is the only Dlinoisan serving on the House Interior Committee, has 
been non-committal. Cong. John Saylor of Pennsylvania said, "CONGRESS i/ILL ENACT 
THE ‘“ILDERNESS BILL WHEN ENOUGH CONSERVATIONISTS WRITE THEIR CONGRESSMEN SAYING 
foal THEY WANT iT ENACTED,  -=~2-.--- LL 2 Raymond Mostek 

HUNTING TO BE ALIOVED IN STATE PARKS 
Gov. Otto Kerner signed HB 584, which will allow hunting on 4,000 acres of unused 
State park land. He also issued an executive order limiting such hunting to five 
state parks: Beaver Dam, Lake Argyle, Red Hills, Lake Ramsey, and Stephen Forbes. 
The acreage affected is low bottom or small forest land. The governor's order 
forbids the opening of any part of any park to hunting if a majority of the land 
is used for camping, picnicking, or other recreationel purposes. The Department 
of Conservation will supervise such hunting. No hunting will be allowed in areas 
such as Starved Rock, Illinois Beach State Park, Pere Marquette, etc, 

B/OLOGY LIBRARY 
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