THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 
Published Quarterly by the 
ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY 
Roosevelt Road and Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IlIl., 60605 
Number 144 
December 1967 
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by RAYMOND MOSTEK 
THE NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY: The 63rd annual convention was 
held in spacious Chalfonte-Haddon Hall in Atlantic City, N. J., from Sept. 29 
to Oct. 3. Charles Callison, executive v-p of NAS, predicted that the society 
will have 100,000 members before 1970. It now has about 53,000. He de- 
clared, “This has been a negative 90th Congress: Water pollution funds 
have been cut; the Roadside Beauty bill is in trouble in the House because 
congressmen may not fund it. The Third Wave of the Conservation move- 
ment appears to have crested under the war pressures of Vietnam. When 
government evades its responsibility, it becomes more urgent that con- 
servationists do not falter.” 
Vice President Roland Clement 
rocked the audience when he 
warned us of possible damage to 
fragile bird eggs due to. sonic 
booms. Present plans to build 
greater supersonic planes may 
have a serious effect on the bird 
population. 
Secretary of the Interior Stewart 
Udall was given a rising ovation 
both before and after his address 
— a fine testimonial to a great 
secretary-conservationist. In reply 
to Callison, Udall observed that 
while the Congress has authorized 
no new national parks, at least 
no dams have been built at Grand 
Canyon, on the Potomac River, or 
at Rampart in Alaska. Udall 
pleaded once again for support for 
a system of “wild rivers’ and 
scenic foot trails. A trail was re- 
cently established at Cape Cod. 
Udall declared that if but one 
generation of Americans slowed 
down its birth rate, and its ob- 
session with “growth,” we would 
be better able to solve some of 
our vexing social problems. 
A plea was made to support 
HR 6138, sponsored by Cong. John 
Dingell (Mich.) in an effort to save 
the alligator which is threatened 
with extinction by southern poach- 
ers. NAS has raised $260,000 to- 
wards purchases of land for the 
magnificent Florida Corkscrew 
Swamp, but it needs another 
$202,000. The New Jersey Audubon 
Society presented Callison with a 
check for $500, while another Au- 
dubon club donated $1,200 towards 
the Corkscrew cause. 
The business assembly unani- 
mously passed a resolution calling 
for an end to the.use of DDT. It 
