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EAGLES vse SKI LIFT AT PERE MARQUETTE STATE PARK 


























In October, 1968, the Illinois Department of Conservation leased a section | 
of Pere Marquette State Park, near Alton, to Donald Chaplan of Ladu2, Missouri 
to build a ski lift by 1979. A major controversy arose when the private signing 
of the lease was made public this spring, and clearing began. 
This hill has been used by eagles for years, and many people have studied them, 
Thanks to the alertness of Paul Kilburn and John Wanamaker, biologists at 
Principia College, the Illinois Department of Conservation halted clearing on 
May 12 and there will be no further disturbance to the roost. 
William Rutherford, Conservation Director, stated that eagles have precedence 
over ski lifts. He has had the Governor place conservation on a non-partisan 
basis so that private treaties will not be made and leasing agreement will be 
made public before being signed. 
We should like to express our thanks to Paul Kilburn and John Wanamaker. We 
are also most grateful to Mrs. Sarah Vasse of Brussels, Illinois for her letter 
writing campaign to contact important state and national officials regarding 
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Terry Ingram, Chrm. 
Hawk and Owl Protection Com, 
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COMMONWEALTH EDISON DONATES RECREATION LAND 
Governor Richard Ogilvie announced that the Commonwealth Edison Co, of 
Chicago has donated 1250 acres in Christian and Sangamon Counties for recrea- 
tional purposes. The Department of Conservation plans to develop a boat 
launching site and picnic area on one of the three tracts near Lake Kincaid. 
The company has granted easement rights for boating and fishing on the 2600- 
acre lake and on a 100-foot strip of land around the 100-mile shoreline. 
Further development plans include facilities for boating and camping. Lake 
Kincaid is fifteen miles southeast of Springfield. 
Alice Palmer 
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I.A.S. MEMBER IS VETERAN BIR) BANDER 
Dorothy Flentge of Prospect Heights is secretary of the Lake-Cook County 
Chapter of the I.A.S. and has been a bird bander for 27 years. Mrs.Flentge 
learned this fascinating hobby from her late husband, and she has banded 
thousands of birds. Many of the birds Mrs. Flentge banded have been recovered 
from distant places, such was the case of the chimney swift, found in the 
Peruvian jungle, and brought to the local priest by a puzzled Indian. 
Mrs. Flentge and her husband were among the first to establish a bluebird trail 
by nailing houses to the fenceposts in years past, when Wheeling was mainly a 
farming area, 

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