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Hawk MountTAIN SANCTUARY at Drehersville, Pennsylvania, celebrates its 
21st birthday this fall. A new assembly building was dedicated at this 
famous point on the Kittatinny Ridge. The slaughter of hawks still con- 
tinues at other points nearby. Pennsylvania, like most other states, does 
not protect all hawks. The Sanctuary is open all year around. 
A Copy or AUDUBON’s “Birds of America” was recently purchased by a 
London bookseller for over $25,000. The book is a yard wide and contains 
many colored plates. Bobwhite Quail were recently introduced on the island 
of Oahu and Hawaii. Twenty-four were released on each island. Chuckar 
partridges have also been released on all the islands. 
A New NATIONAL PARK in the Virgin Islands is expected. Laurance Rocke- 
feller has been acquiring portions of the 12,700 acre island of St. John. It 
is to be donated to the National Park Service if Congress approves the 
proposal. 
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PaRK is threatened again, this time by the construc- 
tion of a hydroelectric project. Rep. Clair Engle of California has introduced 
HR 2388 for this purpose. It was back in 1913 that Congress authorized a 
dam at Hetch-Hetchy valley in Yosemite National Park. Only a few hundred 
people come to see this reservoir compared with the thousands who visit El 
Capitan, Half-Dome and Yosemite Falls. 
THE WHITE STORK POPULATION IN EUROPE is diminishing. This bird winters 
in Africa from Sudan to Cape Province. In France and Italy these large 
birds have been shot by “sportsmen.” There are other reasons given for its 
dwindling population such as the modernization of Europe and the build- 
ing of high tension wires and power lines; the use of DDT and other grass- 
hopper poisons. 
THE U.S. ARMY PERSISTS IN DEMANDING USE OF WILDLIFE REFUGES for its own 
purposes. Rep. Carl Vinson has introduced a bill which would take over 
10,000 acres from the southern part of the 59,000 acre Wichita National 
Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma. This refuge was created in 1905 by President 
Theodore Roosevelt. It now contains more than 800 bison, some 300 elk 
and herds of antelope and deer. It is also the last stronghold of the famous 
Texas Longhorn cattle. Once there were only 28 of these magnificent ani- 
mals in 1928. Today the herd numbers over 350. Some steers have horns as 
long as seven feet. In this refuge are found some of the native grasslands 
like Indian grass and buffalo grass which so impressed the early frontiers- 
men. In his book, “A Guide to Bird Finding West of the Mississippi,” Olin 
Pettingill, Jr. mentions that the refuge is used by many migrating ducks, 
including Hooded Mergansers and the Buffleheads. Here are found such 
species as the Western Kingbird, the White-Necked Raven, the Dickcissel, 
the Bob-White and the Wild Turkey. Hearings will be held by the House 
Armed Services Committee in June. Your letters of protest should be sent 
to your own Congressman, PLUS to Rep. Carl Vinson, Chairman, House 
Office Bldg., Washington, D.C. The primeval land we have now is all we 
shall ever have. Let us act to protect it now. 
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