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of the U.S. Steel Co. in a court case testing the legality of the sale of 194 
acres of land for $100 an acre off 79th street in Chicago. The I.A.S. partici- 
pated in the last hearing, along with several other conservation groups. The 
ease has been heard three times before the high state court, and may be 
brought before the U.S. Supreme Court if conservationists can raise almost 
$10,000. ... Sen. Yarborough is seeking to establish a 70,000-acre Guadalupe 
Mountains National Park in Texas. It would be only 30 miles from Carlsbad 
Caverns and will contain the massive bluff known as El Capitan, a well- 
known Western landmark. ... As long ago as 1935, the National Park Ser- 
vice surveyed 3,700 miles of shoreline and recommended 12 major strips, 
containing 437 miles of beach, as National Seashore Parks. Congress, which 
prides itself on its “independence and intelligence” failed to act and only 
one of the 12 was saved. Marce Island in Florida fell to a private builder 
when Sen. Holland used his influence in behalf of private gain over public 
good. .. . The Pennsylvania Game Commission has lifted the $4 bounty on 
the Great Horned Owl. Over 1,081 of the birds were killed in 1965. ... Wis- 
consin has acquired 40,000 acres of recreation land a year since 1961. And 
Illinois??? 
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AUDUBON BULLETIN to Have New Editor 
Beginning with the September 1966 issue, the new Editor of THE 
AUDUBON BULLETIN will be Lewis B. Cooper, 1360 Sandburg Ter- 
race, Chicago, Ill. 60610. Please send him your articles, reports, and 
other contributions NOW — deadline for the September issue is Au- 
gust 15th. 
It is with regret that I resign the editorship after 154% years. The 
task has not been easy, but it has brought much satisfaction in creat- 
ing a vital publication and in knowing that I was in some measure 
helping to protect birds, wildlife, and wilderness areas in Illinois. In 
recent years the burdens of greater responsibilities and longer hours 
in my profession, as well as the duties of maintaining an arboretum- 
in-miniature in Glen Ellyn, have grown too great to permit me to 
carry on as editor. I will not be retiring wholly from I.A.S. activities; 
as associate editor, I will continue to handle the many collateral pub- 
lishing tasks that keep the Society going. Also, I will have time at 
last to complete BIRD FINDING IN ILLINOIS. 
To those of you who have helped me by contributing so many 
fine articles, I urge that you support Lewis Cooper with the same de- 
votion to our cause. The Society has just begun to grow and to attain 
its potential strength; with your help, the I.A.S. can become a vital 
force not only in promoting bird lore, but in developing a conservation 
conscience in Illinois. 
Paul H. Lobik, 22W681 Tamarack Drive, Glen Ellyn, Ill. 
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