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Nature Photographers Wanted 
MEMBERS AND FRIENDS of the 
Illinois Audubon Society are in- 
vited once more to participate in 
the 17th Chicago International 
Exhibition of Nature Photo- 
graphy. Sponsors are the Chi- 
ago Nature Camera Club and 
the Chicago Natural History 
Museum, Deadline for entries is 
January 15, 1962. Entry fees are 
$1.00 plus postage for 4 slides 
and/or $1.00 plus postage for 4 
prints. Accepted prints will be 
exhibited in the main hall of the 
Chicago Natural History Mu- 
seum, Roosevelt Road and Lake 
Shore Drive, Chicago, from Feb- 
ruary 4 through February 25, 
1962. Accepted slides will be 
projected at the James Simpson 
Theater (where our Screen Tour 
Lectures are presented) on two 
Sundays, February 4 and Feb- 
foaryeeli. at 22300) p.m- Entry 
forms may be obtained from 
Paul H. Lobik, Editor, 22W681 
Tamarack Drive, Glen Ellyn, Ill. 
Evening Grosbeak Leslie Campbell 
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Annual Report of the Conservation Committee 
By JAMES S. AYARS 
MorE RESEARCH AND greater public awareness of conservation problems are 
needed to assure the welfare of bird life in a future that must accommodate 
expanding human populations. This warning is from a report of the Conser- 
vation Committee of the Wilson Ornithological Society. As the report states: 
“Expansion of urban areas, highway construction, and intensive agri- 
cultural, industrial, and recreational development are bringing about a 
modification of the habitat of birds. A sustained effort to appraise the effect 
of this ‘new frontier’ on bird life and to temper undesirable changes when- 
ever feasible is highly desirable.” ; 
Compiled by Dr. Thomas G. Scott, Chairman of the Committee and Head 
of the Wildlife Research Section of the Illinois Natural History Survey, 
and published in the September 1961 issue of the Wilson Bulletin, the report 
lists (1) conservation education, (2) land-use problems, (3) habitat pollu- 
tion (esticides, oil, etc), and (4) control of bird populations as major 
points of concern. The Committee pays tribute to the public schools and to 
such organizations as the Forest Preserve District of Cook County for 
their part in conservation education. 
