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APRIL 30 IS ARBOR DAY AND BIRD DAY IN ILLINOIS 
Members of the ILLINCIS AUDUBON SOCIETY my wish to celebrate ARBOR and BIRD DAY in 
many ways this year. It can be a day of re-dedication to help save the wildlife and 
beauty spots of an affluent but often neglected America: 
1, Plant a bush or a tree at your home or in a park. 
2, Set up a Bluebird Trail; put up a Wren House. 
3. Send a dollar to the Bald Eagle Club (Box 287, Decatur, Ill.) 
i, Join the Clean Streams Committee in your county. | 
5, Ask a friend to join the ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY. 
6. Serve as a volunteer on an IAS Committee. 
7, Send a donation to the Prairie Chicken Foundation of Illinois (819 N. Main 
St., Rockford, 111.) 
8, Schedule a showing of the CBS Reports Filn, "The Silent Spring of Rachel 
Carson" (write Mrs. Lee Jens, 22 W 210 Stanton Rd., Glen Ellyn, TET) 
9, Write a letter to your congressman and ask him to help "SAVE THE DUNES" and 
establish the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Park. 
10. Ask Governor Kerner to support strong legislation to ban billboard blight in 
| Illinois. 
11, Buy an Illinois Audubon Society Sanctuary Sign. 
12, Write to your state legislators and state senators and ask them to support the 
GREEN AREAS IN ILLINOIS Program. | 
13, Write a "Letter to the Editor" of your local newspaper on some phase of outdoor 
conservation. 
14. Renew your membership dues in the ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY. 
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15. Resolve that on this day, you will do at least three things to help make Illinois) 
and America a greener, cleaner and more beautiful place to live. | 
Raymond Mostek, President | 
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO GEOLOGY FIELD TRIPS FOR MAY AND JUNE 
To acquaint interested laymen with the basic geology of the Chicago region and the state 
of Illinois, the University of Chicago will conduct five all-day field trips. May & | 
Palos Park; May 15-Kankakee; May 22-Starved Rock; June 5-Starved Rock; June 12-Galena. 
| Tour leader is M. H. Nitecki, Curator of the walker Museum of Paleontology, U. of C. | 
| Cost is $50.00, including transportation for each of the field trips, For additional 
information, contact M. Abromowitz, 64 E. Lake St., Chicago. Phone FI 6-8300. 
AUDUBON SOCIETIES MUST BE MORE THAN BIRD CLUBS 
| At the recent National Audubon Convention in Tucson, Staff Biologist Roland Clement oaidl | 
"We need an informed and outspoken public, It is at the local level that abuses exist, 
and it is at the local level that they must be corrected. Local Audubon Societies mst 
be more than bird clubs, They must accept the challenge of educating the general public. | 

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They must be the ecological conscience of their communities." ‘ 



