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worth Longfellow. Part of the Appalachian mountain range will be named 
after him. . .Since 1940 the sale of insecticides has boomed from $40 million 
to over $290 million and is expected to reach $1 billion by 1975. . .An ex- 
cellent article on World Population, reprinted from the Scientific American 
and written by Sir Julian Huxley, is available for 50 cents from the Ameri- 
can Humanist Association, Yellow Springs, Ohio. . .The U.S. Fish and 
Wildlife Service has announced that three new wildlife refuges will be 
established. They will be located near Bakersfield, Calif., Amarillo, Texas, 
and Jackson, Alabama. 
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Toward Mourning Dove Protection 
By PAuL H. LOBIK 
ACTING ON THE THEORY that previous campaigns to protect the Mourning 
Dove have failed because they began too late to gather much momentum, 
the I.A.S. has appointed a Bird Protection Committee to determine whether 
it may be feasible to place the dove on the songbird list. The committee con- 
sists of the writer as chairman, Jackson L. Boughner of Palatine, and Mrs. 
Madeline Dorosheff of Springfield. 
The first objective of the committee is to discover whether a new cam- 
paign in behalf of the dove has any hope of success. We will undertake a 
survey of all candidates for the State Legislature and the Governorship to 
learn how many favor dove protection. If a majority is with us, then we 
will work to introduce a bill in the next session. If a majority expresses no 
interest or possibly opposition to our cause, then we will continue our edu- 
cational work until the majority of public opinion — and the Legislature — 
will be on our side. 
Our opposition to dove hunting is based on these facts: (1) The Mourn- 
ing Dove biologically is a songbird, not a game bird; (2) the dove is shot 
for “live target practice” and not to provide meat for the table (a robin 
weighs as much as a dove); (8) the dove is shot while nesting (whether 
the figure is 1%, as our Department of Conservation claims, or 20%, as 
our “Breeding Bird Census of Illinois” shows, or 26%, as shown by studies 
in Iowa, doves are still shot while nesting); (4) the dove is valuable to 
agriculture — an adult may eat over 10,000 weed seeds in a day: (5) the 
early season on doves puts hunters afield while most of our songbirds are 
still migrating; (6) the bag limit on doves is meaningless, as some hunters 
“shoot them, and let them lie.” 
As soon as the results of our survey of candidates for election have been 
tabulated, we will notify all I.A.S. members. Many of you, we feel, will 
want to know how the candidates for State Representative or State Senator 
from your district — as well as Governor — stand on dove protection. In 
the meantime, letters to the candidates from your area, expressing a desire 
for dove protection, will do much to help this movement. 
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