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4. SANCTUARY NUMBER FOUR APPROACHES REALITY: There is considerable 
competition for land in the Bogota region. Farmers must enlarge their holdings 
to make expensive equipment pay off. Land prices are soaring. There is sel- 
dom any land for sale, and when an estate is to be liquidated, local residents 
usually know about it long before the P.C.F.I. We have 89 acres south of 
Sanctuary No. 2 which we are attempting to buy through a donor, who will 
hold title during his lifetime and then give the land to the P.C.F.I. The land 
is to be leased to the Foundation at 3% per year of the purchase price, plus 
taxes. 
5. PUBLICITY DISPLAY: Vera Shaw, R. R. 2, Olney, member of the P.C.F.I. 
Board and Management Committee, has volunteered to collect and prepare 
a display of all articles, pictures, and feature stories concerning past and 
present efforts to save the native Prairie Grouse from extinction in I[linois. 
Any one who has materials of this kind should mail them to Mrs. Shaw at the 
above address. 
6. P.C.F.I. GETS NEW SECRETARY AND TREASURER: Mrs. William Joy, Box 
#8, Centralia, conservationist, housewife, and mother of a two-year-old son, 
has consented to take over the duties of P.C.F.I. Secretary, replacing the dedi- 
cated Mrs. Madeline Dorosheff, who asked to be replaced because of sickness 
in her family. Mrs. Joy, a native of New York, received her Bachelor’s and 
Master’s degrees in Botany from Cornell University. Her husband is the edi- 
tor and publisher of the Centralia Evening Sentinel. We welcome Judith into 
our official family in the Foundation. Her consuming interest in conservation 
should be of great value in accomplishing our objectives in Southern Illinois. 
Paul W. Parmalee, Head Curator of Zoology at the Illinois State Museum, 
was appointed our new treasurer at the Annual Board Meeting July 10. Paul 
replaces Fred Pullman, who asked to be relieved because of business pressures. 
We are very fortunate in securing a replacement of Paul’s standing and 
ability. All contributions to protect the Prairie Chicken should be mailed to 
Paul W. Parmalee, Treasurer, P.C.F.I., Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Ill. 
7. NEW CHICAGO GROUP TO RAISE $150,000 FOR P.C. SANCTUARIES: This 
group will collect funds under the Illinois Chapter of the Nature Conservancy 
to purchase grasslands for donation to the University of Illinois for perma- 
nent management in the preservation of Prairie Chickens. This supplements 
the efforts and objectives of the P.C.F.I. and in no way will duplicate our 
past, present or future objectives. 
8. U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE TO LEND SUPPORT: Lester Dundas, 
Staff Specialist from the Regional Office of the Fish and Wildlife Service, 
visited the Bogota and Mt. Erie areas on Thursday, August 19. Recommen- 
dations will be made to the Department of the Interior that steps be taken 
to divert native grasslands in Illinois to Prairie Grouse preservation. Mr. 
Dundas was very favorably impressed with the management of the sanctuary 
lands by the Foundation. 
3. SEND IN YOUR RESERVATIONS EARLY: If you wish to visit the Prairie 
Chicken booming grounds in the spring of 1966, ask now for details of ar- 
rangements from Joseph W. Galbreath at the address below. Remember: NO 
VISITORS are allowed on sanctuary lands during the booming and _ nesting 
season except for those entering by supervised visits from March 1 through 
April 10. 
9405 S. Richfield Road, East St. Louis, Illinois 
