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Dr. Alfred Lewy Memorial Book Award 
By Betty Groth 
AT THE FINAL AUDUBON Screen Tour at the Chicago Natural History 
Museum this spring the Illinois Audubon Society presented the DR. AL- 
FRED LEWY MEMORIAL BOOK AWARD to the Will County Sportsmen’s 
Club. The presentation was made in the James Simpson Theater to Mr. 
Floyd Zebell, Secretary of the Club, by Miss Betty Groth, Vice President 
for Conservation, and comprised the following books which have now been 
donated by Will County Sportsmen’s Club in the interest of conservation 
education to the following schools: 
Silent Spring — Joliet Junior College 
Introduction to Ornithology — Wilmington High School 
1001 Questions About Birds — Braidwood High School 
Peterson’s Field Guide to Western Birds — Peotone High School 
Birdwatcher’s Guide — Lincoln Way High School (New Lenox) 
Pough’s Audubon Guide to Western Birds — Providence High School 
(Joliet) 
Our National Parks — Lockport High School 
Feathered Wings — Plainfield High School 
Birds at Home — St. Bernard’s Grade School (Joliet) 
The Will County Sportsmen’s Club has sent a formal expression of 
appreciation to the Illinois Audubon Society for receiving these books, 
awarded to them in behalf of their efforts to save the Des Plaines Wildlife 
Refuge from the industrial bulldozers and to preserve this land as a natural 
area in Illinois. The Sportsmen’s Club urges that the Illinois Audubon 
Society and the sportsmen continue to work in harmony to achieve our 
common conservation goals. 
179 Villa Road, Addison, Illinois 
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NATURE CONSERVANCY BUYS SANCTUARY JEWEL 
By Dr. Lewis Stannard 
ROCKY BRANCH NATURAL AREA, near Marshall in east central Illinois, 
is an unique relict area of 135 acres containing rare plants, fishes, and 
insects. Sandstone clifis, springs, crystal-clear brooks, and periodic water- 
falls give it a jewel-like quality at all seasons. Over the past five years, 
the IMinois Chapter of the Nature Conservancy successfully convinced the 
seven owners of the area to sell their land, raised more than half of the 
money for the purchase, and borrowed the remainder from the national 
office. Further negotiations by the national office are now nearing com- 
pletion to place this sanctuary under the custody of Eastern Illinois Uni- 
versity. The preservation of Rocky Branch as a living museum for scientific 
and educational purposes has been essentially realized. For maximum 
protection, an additional 50 acres of adjacent woods ought to be purchesed 
during some future project by a conservation organization to provide a 
buffer zone. 
State Natural History Survey, Urbana, Illinois 
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