

I.A.S, Newsletter - August 1967 - 7 - 
TOP BUY IN BINOCULARS .... Profits Go To IAS 
8x40 Lightweight ...Tax and Postage $73.00 
Picked up.in person ..... veice 
7x35 Hertel & Reuss, favored by birdwatchers 
Ordered thro mail ....... $60.00 
Picked up in person ..... 59.18 
Submit orders to: John Rohleder, 1141 Dell Rd., Northbrook, Ill. 60062, 
Phone: 272-4192, or 
Alpha R, Peterson, 5301 Carpenter St., Downers Grove, 
Ill, 60515. Phone: 968-7239 

SEATS AT WILDLIFE FILM PROGRAMS IN CHICAGO TO BE RESERVED 
Starting with the 1967-68 Fall and Winter Wildlife Films, the Illinois 
Audubon Society will have the middle section of seats in the James Simpson 
Theater of the Field Museum reserved for IAS members until 2:25 P.M. IAS 
members must show their membership cards, Dates for the series are: 
Oct. 8, Nov. 5, Dec, 17, Feb. 18 and Mar, 31. 
Keep Them Flying. Save the Bald Eagle, Join the Bald Hagle 
Club by sending in one dollar for a lifetime membership card, 
Mrs, Vera Shaw, Chairman, Illinois Audubon Society, Bald 
Eagle Club, Route 2, Olney, Ill, 62450, 

STARVED ROCK PRESERVE DEDICATED 
Establishment of the Starved Rock Nature Preserve was announced at a dedication 
ceremony June 10, 1967 by the Illinois Department of Conservation and the Illinois 
Nature Preserves Commission, . 
The Preserve, which includes an area of 502: acres, is west of Starved Rock 
State Park. It lies along the south side of the Illinois River west of Illinois 
Route 178 and north of Route 71, It incluwies two parcels of land that were given 
to the Department of Conservation some years ago, The Lehigh Portland Cement 
Company donated the west portion in 1936 and the Blow Real Estate Trust donated 
the east portion in 1944 at the same time it donated the land now in the 
Matthiessen State Park, The land has been kept in its natural state since it was 
acquired by the State, 
The Starved Rock Nature Preserve is the 18th to be included in the State 
nature preserves system, 
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It appears the Rampart Dam in Alaska which would have 
created a reservoir 400 miles long and 8&0 miles wide, and 
destroyed more wildlife than any water project in history, 
is a dead issue, 


