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CONSERVATION NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE 
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois has agreed to transfer the Volo and Wauconda bogs in northeastern 
Illinois to the Department of Conservation. The bogs are threatened with residential and business developments near 
them. 
Dan Malkovich, Acting Director, said that the Department is in the process of purchasing a buffer zone around Volo bog. 
“The bogs are fragile and cannot tolerate much human usage,” he said. “but we may provide picnic and camping areas in the 
buffer zone.” 
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The long fight to save Robert Ridgway’s Bird Haven in Olney is apparently over and lost. Bulldozers have already 
moved into the area to begin clearing the woods for the new recreational lake which conservationists fought so long to 
block. 
1AS board member, Vera Shaw, says that one of the first things that the clearing crew did, was to shoot the barred 
owl, which she found hanging dead in a tree. She also said that the conservationists were considering bringing suit against 
the University of Chicago, the former owner of the sanctuary, for selling the one-acre grave site of Robert Ridgway to the 
city This is the only part of Bird Haven which will not be flooded, and the city plans to use it for a picnic area. 
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House Bill 3733 which authorizes the purchase of the Thorn Creek Woods for a new state park passed, and was sent to the 
State Senate. The 800-acre, which lies just south of Park Forest in the northeastern part of Will County, is also being 
considered as the site for a large housing development. 
Those interested in wildflowers will be happy to learn of the publishing of two new volumes in S.I.S’s “‘IIlustrated Flora of 
Illinois’ series by Robert Mohlenbrock. The new volumes are: “Lilies to Orchid” and ‘Flowering Rust to Rushes”, and cost 
ten dollars each. The books, which are illustrated with black and white line drawings, may be ordered from the S.1.U. Press in 
Carbondale; the first book, on ferns, was published in 1967. 
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Northern Indiana Public Service Company is planning a new coal burning power plant near Michigan City; the plant would | 
discharge water into Lake Michigan 11 degrees above the average temperature. In addition, the plant will burn 3% sulphur 
coal and will discharge 1,445,200 gallons of effluents containing sulfites and sulfates into the lake. The company also plans to 
replace the high dunes which act as a screen between the existing NIPSCO plant and the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore 
with a series of fly-ash basins. 
At a Chicago conference in early May, the Federal Water Quality Administration announced it has adopted a policy, which 
if translated into law, will require Lake Michigan water users to return the public’s water at no more than one degree hotter 
than when withdrawn. This is a recommendation, and not a law, but it is hoped that the pollution agencies in the states will 
incorporate it into their water quality standards. Conservationists are being asked to write the Governor and C. W. Klassen, | 
Illinois Sanitary Water Board, 616 State Office Bldg., Springfield, Illinois 62706, to urge the adoption of temperature 
standards. 
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An estimated 31 tons of cans, bottles, discarded household appliances and other trash were removed from the Hennepin 
Canal during clean-up day on May 23. Amost 3,000 people participated in the activity; these included Boy Scouts, Future 
Farmers of America, camping and hiking clubs, members, and those from sportsmen’s conservation, and Chamber of 
Commerce groups. 
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OCTOBER NEWSLETTER — The deadline for the next issue is September 7. Please send single-spaced copy to Judith 
Joy, Box 3, Centralia, Illinois 62801. 

