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OUR EDITORS DO MORE THAN EDIT (Continued) 
Bill has been a magazine writer-editor for some 25 years; and has worked on the Virginia (III.) Gazette and the Rockford 
Morning Star. He now operates a supply shop for pilots. His chief environmental interest is wildlife conservation; and in 1970 
- 71, he served as chairman of the Highland Park Environmental Control Commission. 
Judith Joy formerly served the I.A.S. as a downstate regional secretary and she has been Secretary of the Prairie Chicken 
Foundation of Illinois since 1965. She works part-time as farm editor of the Centralia Sentinel which is published by her 
husband. 
Charles Lappen, President. 
IAS MEMBER HELPS STATE SOLVE POLLUTION PROBLEM 
Since water pollution is one of the greatest threats to good fishing, the Department of Conservation has found a new ally 
in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the state’s stiffer attitude on pollution. In one such instance of 
cooperation, |AS Board Member, Elton Fawks, worked with the state agencies to map out a settlement with an East Moline 
paint manufacturer that had been polluting the river. 
The case grew out of an alleged accidental spill of a toxic residue in the plant last May. Some of the residue found its way 
down a floor drain, into storm sewers leading into Honey Creek in East Moline, and thence into the river. A fish kill of 
minnows was reported and the Conservation agent filed a complaint with the Pollution Control Board. The day before the 
scheduled hearing, a four-point agreement was worked out with the offender, Minnesota Paint and Varnish Co., in which they 
promised to: plug interior drains to prevent such future spills, overhaul their gauges, pay $100 damages to the Fish and Game 
Fund for the dead minnows, and insure against a future re-occurrence — which will bring stiffer damages. 
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BIRD RESCUE — The International Bird Research Center is an organization being created by the Richmond Bird 
Center to provide coordination of man-power, materials, and information needed for saving birds and possibly 
other wildlife during oil spills. Contact: Ralph Steiner, IBRC, 2701 8th Street, Berkeley, California. 94701. 

BIOLOGISTS COMPLETE WILDLIFE CENSUS 
The Department of Conservation has completed its summer breeding census for doves, quail, rabbits, and squirrels, these 
are statewide estimates made by district game biologists and give some indication of what the fall populations may be. The 
breeding population for mourning doves shows an increase of 15 percent over last year with a population about the same as in 
1969. In the far northwest part of the state, however the population was about the same as last year, with no increase. 
The quail population is lower on a statewide basis than last year. In the major quail range in the south and southwest areas 
of the state, the breeding population is 23 percent lower, with the rest of the state being about the same as 1970. Figures for 
pheasants are not complete, but indications are that the breeding population is within 10 percent of last year’s. In the major 
pheasant areas in east and east-central Illinois, biologists have found a few more broods than last year. 
The reports states that the squirrel population is down slightly throughout the state. In north-central Illinois the cottontail 
rabbit population is up slightly; and this is also true for the northern part of the state. However the north-west and extreme 
north counties indicate a decrease. The population in the south-central counties is about the same, but further south the 
numbers are slightly less than in 1971. 






















