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9800 S. Willow Springs Road 
Willow Springs, Ill. 60480 
N.I.U. THREATENS MONTGOMERY ARBORETUM 
By R. M. Barron 
The Illinois Audubon Society has joined forces with other conservation oreani- 
zations in alerting all citizens of Illinois who love and value nature to the 
threatened destruction of Montgomery Arboretum. This Arboretum, which 
contains one of the finest stands of hardwood timber in the State, on the 
campus of Northern Illinois University at DeKalb, was preserved in 1959 
supposedly as a perpetual heritage, through a statewide expression of public 
interest and concern. 
Now, six years later, its existence may be ended by action of the Illinois 
Board of Governors of State Colleges and Universities that tentatively ap- 
proved the erection of two large buildings in the preserved area. 
The Committee for the Preservation of the Montgomery Arboretum, 
which led the successful battie in 1959 and is leading the forces of conserva- 
tion today, in 1960 was given the highest award of the Illinois Audubon 
Society for saving this Arboretum. Its surveys show that the use of this area 
as the location of steel and concrete buildings is entirely unnecessary, since 
the DeKalb campus has more than 50 newly acquired acres of unused land. 
Officials of the Committee who have examined the Arboretum recently 
declared that with the proposed buildings, new access drives, service areas, 
parking lots and sidewalks, few of the magnificent trees will be left. Also 
many more will be sacrificed in the building process, for as is well known, 
“construction in the woods means destruction of the woods.” 
