I.A.S. Newsletter, April 1968 - 3 - 
ILLINOIS PRAIRIE PATH WORK FESTIVAL 
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Saturday, May 18, 1968 will be the date of the next Work Festival on the 
Illinois Prairie Path in DuPage County, 
Time: 10 to 12 and 1 to 3 pm. We'll have an hour for lunch, 
Bring a beverage and food, 
Meet: County Line Road and Geneva Road at Wheaton, 
Bring: Hammers, shovels, rakes, shopping bags, clippers, 
We will clear the weeds and growth from the middle of the path, clean up 
the debris and the beer cans, and try to set up some rest benches and areas, 
Everyone is invited to participate, For further information, call or write: 
- Leroy Tunstall, Chairman, Ill, Prairie Path Work Festival Conmittee 
405 South Wheaton Ave,, Wheaton, Ill, Mo-8-8262, 
WILDERNESS SOCIETY LISTS 1968 WILDERNESS TRIPS 
Thirty-five unusual expeditions have been listed in the latest folder 
offered by the Wilderness Society (729 15th St., Washington, DC 20005), 
There are 12 horseback pack trips, 12 walking trips, 6 backpacking trips, 4 
waterway trips and 1 Alaska tundra trip. Among the places to choose from 
are the Mission Mountains, the Pecos Wilderness, Boundary Waters, Salmon 
River, Canyonlands and other wilderness areas, They are recommended, highly. 
A NOTE FROM THE SAVE THE DUNES COUNCIL 
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HooSier conservationists are urging support for an appropriation of ten 
million dollars for the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Up to now only 
$1,500,000 has been voted, 
Meanwhile the area can be zoned to death, by the town of Portage, Ind, 
There is no park until the land has been bought. Save the Dunes Council has 
urged that conservationists write to Cong. Julia Hansen, Chairman House 
Interior Appro. Subcommittee, House Office Bldg., Washington, DC, asking that 
the funds be voted out. 
The law establishing the Dunes Lakeshore excluded from authorization the 
strip of right-of-way belonging to the Chicago South Shore and South Bend 
RR and the Northern Ind, Public Service Co, If it so desired, the RR could 
establish a four-mile long "marshalling yard" to service the Bethlehem Steel 
Plant which would bisect the park, a plan which the RR has under serious 
consideratim, The National Park Service has asked the RR to explore areas 
outside the park boundaries, 



LUSK CREEK CANYON SLIDES TO BE FEATURED AT DECATUR 
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Professor William C. Ashby of the Botany Dept. of Southern Illinois 
University at Carbondale will speak to the Friday night May 3rd session at 
the Decatur annual meting. He will also show color slides o Lusk Creek 
Canyon, This area is being threatened by a dam, sponsored by local business 
interests in Pope County and the US Forest Service, The proposed lake would 
destroy many species of ferns, flowers and lichen, It is meeting with 
increasing opposition, from conservation am other groups, 





