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SYLVANIA - 
WILDERNESS AREA FOR MIDWESTERNERS 
Sylvania is located along the western end of the Michigan Upper Peninsula 
and within the Ottawa National Forest. The southern boundary runs for 
six miles along the Michigan-Wisconsin state line, about 355 miles from 
Chicago. There are 14,000 acres of almost untouched forests of hemlock, 
birch and maple, enclosing more than 36 lakes and 19 ponds. The tract 
contains a heron rookery with a hundred tree-top nests. It is one of the 
last strongholds of our endangered national emblem, the American Bald 
Eagle. Fishing is excellent. Sylvania also contains porcupines, deer, beaver, 
coyotes and bear. 
Formerly a private club owned by officials of the U.S. Steel Corpora- 
tion for exclusive hunting and fishing, Sylvania is a primeval wilderness. 
The land is now being offered for sale. The Sierra Club urges that funds 
be used from the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund Act to pur- 
chase the land. The U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee 
has already turned down this proposal. Conservationists are urged to write 
to their own Congressmen and to Senators Gaylord Nelson and William 
Proxmire, Senate Appropriations Committee, Senate Office Building, Wash- 
ington, D.C. and urge passage of funds to preserve Sylvania in the public 
domain. The matter is urgent. 
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|.A.S. NEWSLETTER Has a New Editor 
Professor Douglas Wade of Northern Illinois University was ap- 
pointed Editor of the I.A.S. NEWSLETTER by President Raymond 
Mostek at the Annual Meeting of the Society in Davenport, lowa 
in May. Mr. Wade succeeds Charles Lappen, who was elected Vice- 
President and Chairman of the Financial Committee by the Board 
of Directors at the same meeting. 
Douglas Wade brings a wealth of experience to the position of 
Editor. He previously served as editor of an outdoors journal in New 
England, winning an award for editorial excellence. At Northern 
Illinois University, Mr. Wade teaches outdoor education. He is a 
naturalist and an enthusiastic conservationist. All those who wish 
to submit copy for publication in the NEWSLETTER — especially pro- 
gram chairmen of our affiliates — should write to Prof. Douglas 
Wade, Northern Illinois University, 106 Depot Street, Oregon, Illinois. 
