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Lincoln Park Commissioners Provide Chicago with 
Ideal Bird Sanctuary 
Dear Mr. Deane: 
Mr. Eugene Pike, President of the Lincoln Park Board, asked me to 
see that the Audubon Society received this clipping. Will you see that 
the proper person gets it? Have just returned from Southern Illinois, got 
some fine birds for my new Group at Browning, 285 miles south. The 
season is a month ahead of us. Wild roses out and apple trees shedding 
blossoms. Yours, 
WooprurrF. 
Clipping from C/icago Evening Post of April 16, 1925 
By Dean BERGEN 
The Lincoln Park Commissioners leave nothing undone. We are now 
about to have the finest game farm in the country. The ground has been 
laid out with a big fence for protection. Swales and little lakes rest in 
the little valleys with the finest layout of natural brush that can be 
arranged in artificial landscape. 
It is a beautiful spot—this game farm of Lincoln Park. Since the fence 
has been built swarms of song birds have found the place—where they 
are free to build their nests without disturbance. Within a week after 
the fence was built the birds found the swales and brush. Along the shores 
of the little lakes the plover scamper. A flock of dowichers came in early 
and are now growing fat on the natural food. Several pairs of mallards 
have found the ideal nesting place. Even the mergansers have discovered 
the lakes and swing into the sanctuary with all the boldness of their 
little habitats of the north, their wings stirring the silence of the glades. 
After these years of nature study, we are surprised to learn how 
quickly the wild birds will take advantage of a place set off from the 
approach of man. 
The farm is located just north of the Fish Fans club. The park will 
liberate every kind of a wild bird. Here the partridge, the pheasant, the 
quail, the wild turkey, the duck, the rail, the coots, the geese, the rabbit, 
the coon, the muskrat, the beaver and many more lives of the wild will 
have a natural place to live. True, they will venture from the bounds of 
the farm, but there they can return for safety. 
For the convenience of the public the commission has laid the heads of 
the little lakes free from the fence. Here the lakes will protect the farm 
from trespass. This will give the public a chance to look at the wild 
birds without gazing through the fence. These approaches are laid out in the 
glades that drain toward the lower land along the Sheridan drive. 
