
































HANDBOOK ON PRAIRIE PATH IS VALUABLE LOCAL GUIDE 
Anytime you can get clear, concise, fresh educational material for only $1.00, you'll be spending your money wisely. The 
31 pages of Helen Turner’s booklet, ‘The Illinois Prairie Path’’, are crammed with satisfying, easily digested information 
about this footpath which extends west from Elmhurst along the right-of-way of the Chicago, Aurora and Elgin Railway to 
Wheaton, where it divides into two branches - one going northwest towards Elgin, and the other southwest towards Aurora. 
In an unspoiled state, the path, varying in width from merely 10 feet to 100 feet - provides walking, cycling and horseback 
riding. The author explains the geology of the area and speaks of the Indian tribes and pioneers who lived in the region. 
When describing the trees, shrubs, vines, grasses, flowers, and ‘‘footstep followers ... commonly called weeds’’, she 
enriches her work with pages of identifying sketches. She has even included a page of animal tracks - red fox, muskrat, 
raccoon, grey squirrel, rabbit, woodchuck, dog, chipmunk, deermouse and opossum. Forty-six species of birds are listed; and 
a few of the abundant insect varieties are also mentioned. 
Maps, indication of parking areas, access points from cars, trains and buses, camping possibilities, picnic sites and hiking 
routes add to the guidebook’s value, with an index making it all readily available. 
Copies of the book may be ordered from the author: Helen S. Turner, 125 S. Brainard St., Naperville, Ill. 60540. 
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HISTORY OF 1.A.S. APPEARS IN “OUTDOOR ILLINOIS” MAGAZINE’S JANUARY ISSUE 
Did you know that our own I.A.S. is older than the National Audubon Society, and was the third or fourth state Audubon 
Society organized in the entire nation! The history of the 1.A.S., from its beginning in 1897, when it was organized to save 
the beautiful egrets from the milliners’ shops, to its present-day emergence as an organization deeply committed to 
environmental preservation is traced in R. M. Barron’s outstanding article. 
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Mr. Barton, who is now 75, has just resigned as press secretary for |.A.S. after several years of service. His wife, Alvalene, 
t who is a life member, was one of twenty women selected to make a three week safari to East Africa as part of the group 
| : called WARN (Women Against Ravishment of Nature). 
| The group departed on February 23rd to visit nine National Parks and Game Reserves in Kanya, Tanzania and Uganda. 
The chief emphasis of the tour will be on endangered species; and following the tour, a series of slide lectures on vanishing 
wildlife will be composed from the members’ pictures. These lectures will be made available to groups throughout the 
country, and will no doubt be presented at many Audubon meetings. 

NEW BUMPER STICKER AVAILABLE 
Is there room on your bumper left between the ‘‘Ban DDT” and ‘‘Save Allerton Park” stickers? If so, why not send 
20 cents for a brand new “BAN STRIP MINING” bumper slogan. These are now available from the Frankfort 
(Kentucky) Audubon Society - Mr. Jas. Butler, Box 137, Frankfort, Ky. 40601. 

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The National Parks Service is studying the feasibility of developing a MISSISSIPP! RIVERFRONT PARK opposite St. 
Louis’s Gateway Arch. If undertaken, the project will be one of the most complex ever done by the Park Service, and one of 
the few in an entirely urban setting. 

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