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by Dr. Glidden Baldwin, Mrs. Doris Westfall, Russell Duffin, and many 
others in the Vermilion County Audubon Society resulted in over 5,000 
letters of protest to the governor. As a result, Gov. Kerner vetoed the bill 
which would have allowed the coal firm to strip-mine several hundred 
choice acres of state park land. 
This is an example of what an aroused citizenry can do. Now, if we 
can arouse more people to the same fever pitch, we can go on to establish 
more than the present ten county forest preserve districts in this state, 
and can add more state parks and state forests to the lists. Illinois is near 
the bottom in proportion of people to recreation land. 
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Notes From the Nest: The new waterfowl] identification guide, “Ducks at 
a Distance,” is selling like wheatcakes in a lumber camp at ten below 
zero. With illustrations in full color by artist Bob Hines, the 24 pages 
cover flight patterns, shapes, voices, and flock formations. Published by the 
Fish and Wildlife Service, the book is available at cost, 25c plus five cents 
postage, from our Book Chairman, Leroy Tunstall, 323 East Wesley St., 
Wheaton, Ill... . 
The Natural Resources Council of America, of Washington, D.C., plans 
to re-organize its now defunct National Roadside Committee to focus 
more national attenion on roadside spraying of plants and the billboard 
blight . . . Over 435,000 acres in rugged southern Nevada have been set 
aside as a haven for the American wild horse, that great symbol of the 
old frontier. The reserve is located on the bomber practice range of Nellis 
Airforce Base near Las Vegas. 
The Rover Motor Co. of North America, a firm which makes the 
“Land Rover,’ conducted a poll through a nation-wide magazine, asking 
readers how they felt about billboard advertising. The response on the 
very first day showed 180 against and 11 in favor. Later it was learned 
that the billboard industry used fake names to try to jam the polls. In- 
cidentally, the Land Rover, made in England, is a four-wheel drive vehicle 
that can “go anywhere”... The last wolf in France was supposed to have 
been killed in 1920, but two experts say an animal killed recently in the 
Vosges Mountains was a wolf. Hunters and farmers report the re-appearance 
of wolves in Eastern France ... New Mexico has officially chosen the 
black bear.as its official mammal. Smokey the Bear comes from Capitan, 
New Mexico. 
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The Save the Redwoods League (114 Sansome Street, San Francisco, Calif.) 
has deeded 13,558 acres of forest in the Bull Creek watershed to California. 
Over $1 million was received in private donations in a nine month period, 
to save this part of the Rockefeller Forest of Redwoods. A kind elderly 
lady used to pick up young servicemen from a U.S.O. center during World 
War II and take them for a ride through a redwood forest. I shall always 
be grateful to her, for I was one of those servicemen and I have never for- 
gotten the majesty of the redwoods. ... Though it may not have been 
billed as such, the recent limited nuclear test ban treaty was a victory 
for outdoor conservation. No less a person than Rachel Carson has scored 
the pollution of Arctic Tundra by atomic fallout from nuclear testing. 
