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GLEANINGS FROM AUDUBON BOARD MEETINGS 
The I.A.S. Board of Directors is interested in the new organization, Raptor 
Research Foundation, Inc., with headquarters in Centerville, South Dakota, 
and has made a donation. The organization is attempting to turn the tide of 
our nearly extinct birds of prey. 
"The Last Chance", an illustrated history of the Illinois Prairie Chicken, 
written by Jim Lockart, is available, on a single copy basis, from the 
Department of Conservation, Springfield, Illinois. 
Joe Galbreath has been appointed to the Board of Prairie Chicken Foundation 
of Illinois, for..arSuyear term. 
The Bird Check List which the Field Museum has been printing, has been up- 
dated by Charles Clark of C.O.S. with 44 changes. It was decided to print 
10,000 new copies. The new cards will carry the C.0O.S. and I.A.S. names for 
credits. 
The New Jersey Pine Barrens has been saved, at least for the present, from 
becoming a jet airport. A new group has been formed to help establish it as 
a monument. 
IAS supports the efforts of Kane County Clean Streams Committee to preserve 
the Fox River between Norway and Wedron Illinois as a free-flowing stream 
and urges the state of Illinois to establish a "wild-river" system in Illinois. 
A film entitled "Time to Begin't is available for rental for 3 days for $8.00 
from the film distribution section of Colonial Williamsburg, Va. which was an 
award winner in Beautiful America competition. It is concerned with elements 
which threaten to destroy natural beauty. 
A donation has been given to the Prairie Chicken Foundation of Illinois as 
a memorial to Clarence Sparks of Woodstock who lost his life last winter. 
Mrs. Alice Webster 
48 WHOOPING CRANES FLY NORTH 
Prospects for the survival of the whooping cranes appear improved this year. 
Forty-eight of the majestic birds flew to their summer breeding grounds 
in Canada. A few eggs are now being hatched by the Bureau of Sport 
Fishery and Wildlife at the Patuxent Research Center in Maryland. Last 
year the "eggnapping" resulted in the raising of four young cranes which 
will be released in the wild. More artificial rearing has been planned 
for this summer. Although the whooping crane is probably the most publi- 
cized rare animal in the world, it is still being shot by hunters. 
NEW TREATMENT SAVES OIL-SOAKED BIRDS 
The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 
reports that it saved 50% of the rescued birds that were soaked with 
0il, dumped by a tanker in Massachusetts waters. 
This contrasts sharply with the mere 6% which were saved following the 
Torrey Canyon tragedy. The Massachusetts group used a liquid chemical 
called Polycomplex A-11 which had not been used on wildlife before. 
The chemical is designed as an oil dispersant to break up spills of 
oil on water and beaches. 

