
REQUEST DATES FOR CHRISTMAS COUNTS 
It may seem a bit early to be thinking of Christmas, but better count Participation can be obtained if observers know well 
in advance of count dates in their areas. In this way, several birders may be able to work more than one count into their 
Christmas holiday, and increase the total participation and censusing of count areas. 
The count period begins this year on Saturday, December 18 and ends Sunday, January 2. The Crab Orchard Count (near 
Carbondale) will be held on December 18, and one is being planned for the Union County Wildlife Refuge the following day. 
The Kaskaskia Chapter has already scheduled its count for Marion County on Monday, December 20. | shall be helping on as 
many counts as | can, particularly in the southern part of the state. 
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If the counts are scheduled systematically, it might be possible for an individual to spend his entire vacation counting 
birds. Unfortunately its already too late to get this schedule printed in the Newsletter. However, perhaps the schedule can be 
better coordinated next year. Anyone interested in helping on the Christmas count at Crab Orchard, the one that will get the 
most species in Illinois (we ought to anyway), should contact me to be assured of a position. 
Vernon Kleen 
Box 1057 
Carbondale, IIlinois 62901 
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Note - The Kyte Creek Chapter has scheduled its count for December 26, (contact Jeanne Utz, 1054 Lincoln Highway, 
| Rochelle, I/linois 61068 for details.) McHenry Chapter will hold its count on December 28 (phone Barbara Gay, 653-5622 for 
information on all field trips which are held the second Saturday in each month.) 
THROWAWAY CONTAINERS WASTE ENERGY, COST MONEY 

Only an affluent society such as ours could afford to discard in our junk yards and highways the very dollar and resource 
' consuming throwaway beverage container. But could we or would we if we knew the total cost to the pocketbook and the 
| environment? 
According to a recent report from the Illinois Institute for Environmental Quality, throwaway containers consume 3 to 4 
| times more energy and are 30% more costly than the returnable, refillable bottle. The Institute, after much pressure on the 
_ Governor, to the contrary by the container makers, is recommending a 5 cent refundable deposit on cans and throwaway 
| bottles. 
But the Governor needs support, for industry, as they have in every state where such a thing is proposed, is ardently 
lobbying against the proposal to the Pollution Control Board. So please write the Governor expressing your support of this 
proposal. (Governor R. B. Ogilvie, State Capitol Building, Springfield, Illinois.) 
The control of the solid waste problem should be done by controlling the generation of solid waste — not simply by 
| finding better ways to bury it. In this sense the deposit proposal is uniquely different from the attempts to clean the air or 
water in that it speaks to the source of the problem rather than the symptom. 
The environmental problems caused by the ubiquitous throwaway containers is viewed by many as small in the overall 
problem. It follows that if we can not solve this small problem we shall never solve the larger ones. 
Bruce Hannon 
1208 W. Union Street 
Champaign, Illinois 61820 
IKES PLAN SUIT ON CORDOVA POWER PLANT — Since it seems likely that the Quad-Cities Nuclear Power Generating 
Station will be put into operation without equipment to cool its hot water discharge, the Izaak Walton League has retained 
Chicago environmental lawyer, Joseph Karaganis, to bring legal action against the Corps of Engineers and the Atomic Energy 
Commission for failing to meet their legal obligations under the National Environmental Policy Act. Unless stopped, the plant 
will be using one-fifth of the Mississippi River for cooling purposes; and then dumping the water back into the river at 20 
degrees or more higher temperature. 





























