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federal funds now being used for outer space exploration should be used 
to build high-speed railroad trains, such as they have in Japan. Senator 
Williams feels this would ease the demand both on land for new airports 
and help solve the vexing transportation problems of the nation. 
In a prepared statement at the 10th Biennial Wilderness Conference 
at San Francisco last April, Stewart Brandborg, Executive Director of the 
Wilderness Society said, “Basic to all resource conservation perspectives, 
of course, is the need to control human population growth and to support 
population planning programs.” 
Drift in wildlife refuge and game range management policy — if 
not reluctance to take a firm, protective stand — has permitted pressures 
from oil, gas, and other commodity interests and from advocates of in- 
tensive mass-recreational developments to shift the emphasis in the rec- 
reational developments, to shift the emphasis in the administration of 
some refuges from that of protective management for wildlife to practices 
that accomodate extractive industries and recreational uses which sacrifice 
wildlife and its living areas.” 
Brandborg pointed out that oil and gas firms have been pressuring 
the government to open up half of the 2,000,000 acre Kenai National Moose 
Range in Alaska. He pointed out that road networks and developments by 
industry are incompatible with wildlife protection and wilderness values, 
but the “fast buck boys who wave the flag” always seem to triumph over 
those who have a kind word for nature and wildlife. He urged that 
people prepare themselves, to attend hearings, and to speak their minds 
on the matter of wilderness values. 
“We are confident that the people want firmly protected wilderness. 
This is the great and present challenge of our work. The world of the 
distant future will not know our names — but if we can preserve sub- 
stantial stretches of the land as it was given to us, they will know we 
did it for them ... for the special quality it can contribute to living.” 
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NOTES FROM THE NEST: The North Central Audubon Council meets 
at Williams Bay, Wisconsin on Oct. 14 and 15th. All Illinois and midwest 
Audubonites are invited to attend. Contact IAS for further details ... A 
membership drive to increase our strength downstate has begun. Fully 
one-third of all Illinois counties do not have a single IAS member ... 
Camping is increasing at Crab Orchard National Wildlife refuge. 85 per- 
cent of the campers come from Illinois with 10 percent coming from 
Missouri; 66 percent of the campers who use Crab Orchard come from 
within 25 miles of the area, only 10 percent drive as far as 200 miles ... 
Ontario has declined to place the wolf on the “extermination list.” The 
national protest was led by the Canadian Audubon Society ... The Na- 
tional Audubon Society is striving valiantly to help Corkscrew Swamp 
now under attack by real estate interests in Florida and is undertaking 
a national fund-raising campaign ... The Cardinal Audubon Club under 
Marjorie Staubus has been working on the billboard and roadside bills 
