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Land in the Chicago area continues to fall to industry and housing. The 
famed Tam O’Shanter Country Club in Niles was sold and an 80-acre in- 
dustrial development will rise on the 120-acre tract. Niles voters voted 
down a referendum to allow the local park district to purchase the area. . 
The Edgewater Country Club in the heart of the city will soon become a 
residential tract, as well as the Evergreen Country Club in Evergreen Park. 
The Mohawk Country Club near Bensenville may be turned into an in- 
dustrial site. 
While some Indiana politicians and a few citizens are moaning about 
the creation of the new Indiana Sand Dunes National Lakeshore, North 
Carolina has donated several thousand acres to help create the new and 
magnificent Cape Lookout National Seashore. It extends for 58 miles along 
the coast where pirates were once known to roam. Meanwhile, in Oregon, 
Senator Maurine Neuberger has been working to obtain establishment of 
the Oregon Dunes National Seashore. Proposed in 1959, the park would 
preserve 35 miles of spectacular coastline ... In signing the Assateague 
National Seashore bill last year, President Johnson said that it was first 
proposed in 1935, and added: “We must move faster. Our population is 
growing, but our shoreline is not. Of the more than 3,700 miles of shoreline 
along our Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, only 105 miles, or less than 3%, is 
available to the public.” 
The Sage Grouse is sometimes called the “Thunderbird” of the West. It 
cannot live without the sagebrush which it uses for food and shelter. How- 
ever, the bird also uses meadows, alfalfa and wheat fields for feeding. The 
Bureau of Land Management is seeking to avoid clearing large areas of 
sagebrush. The Sage Grouse population has remained steady since 1940. 
The Illinois Audubon Society reprint, “Food and Shelter for Birds,” 
continues to be popular. It was compiled from material written by William 
Lyon and Dr. Ralph Yeatter. The folder is available by mail for ten cents 
in coin... Charles Lindbergh, the “Lone Eagle” of the 1927 flight across 
the Atlantic Ocean, is working with the World Wildlife Fund of Washing- 
ton, D.C. to save Prairie Chickens, elephants, rhinos, grizzly bears, and 
ocelots. One of his projects is the preservation of some Texas brushlands 
along the Rio Grande Valley which have been a paradise for the White- 
winged Dove. The area is now being converted to the growing of cotton, 
vegetables, and citrus crops. 
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Landfill Threatens Indiana Dunes 
By the Save-the-Dunes Council 
The permit recently granted to the Bethlehem Steel Company to fill a 
long arm of land into Lake Michigan adjoining the new Indiana Dunes 
National Lakeshore poses a serious threat to the development of the 
park even before it is dedicated. The one person who can require re- 
examination of this threat is the President of the United States. We are 
grateful to President Lyndon B. Johnson for his support of the dunes 
