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scattered over the nation on vacations and business trips. Some are back home and 
on the job. No matter what they are doing, or where, they are thinking about the 
coming season, outdocr activities, and of course the Camp-Out on Sept. 14th. 
_ This is the first year that the Cemp-Out will be held outside a Stete Park, Our 
headquarters «.i1]1 be Green Oaks, the "Nature areal of Knox College near Galesburg. 
Green Oaks was a gift to Knox from jlvah and Allan Green and the Little John Coal 
Company. This unique wildlife area is being developed by the College as an out- 
_ door laboratery for educationand research. Its outstanding feature is a 400-acre 
_ oak forest with scme trees dating back to the 18th Century. Because of the loca- 
_ tion in east-central Knox County, Green Oecks is acecssible from the College and yet 
_ remote enough to remain primitive. The landscape consists of a glaciated upland 
_ laced with small streams flowing southeast to the Spoon River. Thero are 200 acres 
_ of strip-mined land, a wilderness of sharp ridges ana troughs with intervening 
| ponds and 2 mile-long lake. Most of the remaining 160 acres are now being planted 
to tall grass prairie. Green Oaks is 23 miles N.E. of Galesburg. 
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Pe VOL. 2, NO. 4 Bird Protection - News - Conservation ____ August 1963 
fe PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY THE ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY 
ite Mrs. M.G. Ericson, NWISLETTER Editor, 
4 9300 N. Crawford avenue, Skokie, Illinois 
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2 Tt is nov: midsummer in the Midwest. Members of the Tllinois Audubon Society are 
te The variety of habitats at Green Oaks, from upland woods to the forests in ravines, 
| the ficlds, brushy slopes, ponds, streems and lake, are accessible by trails. 
_ From Krafft Field at the end of the road in the heart of theo area, the lancs 
_ radiate outward. At the center are picnic facilities and a log cabin shelter house 
_ constructed by students along the lincs of the pioneer homesteads of Galesburg. 
Here is ample space for comping in an unspoiled setting. Bring tents, trailers, 
_ charcoal, camp stove, or what have you and come along for a weck-end of nature 
4 Study in a magnificent now arca, for fun and fellowship with other I.4.S. members, 
_ ff you don't camp out, there is plenty of motel and hotel space available, as 
‘s listed on page 7. Turn the page for complete details and your reserveticn form. 
Do not miss this exciting weck-cnd! Come along with us! 

TAKE PART IN THE NATURE SLIDE SHOT 
Once agein a feature of the Saturday cvcning program at the I.4A.S. Fall Camp-Out 
will be a showing of "The Bost Nature Pictures of 1963." These are slides brought 
by the campers - meaning Y-O0-U. Pick out five to ten of the best nature slides 
you've taken in the past year and bring them along. We'll see them all following 
Dr. Paul Shepard's lecture. September 14th is not far away - get your slides 
now! 
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