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Distribution of our 3000 charts will be made to the following: at all 
Screen Tours, to boy scouts, girl scouts, future farmers of America, all 
Junior Audubon Clubs, biology and science classes in the city schools, and 
James Millikin University. We plan to contact all classes in the rural 
schools, and conservation and ornithology classes in high schools and 
universities. 
Through farm bureaus, we will reach all units of the Home Bureau. 
In this group the program chairman has been contacted and arrangements 
made for one monthly lesson to be on “Our Birds of Prey.” This will reach 
both the city women and the farm wives. Sportsmen’s clubs, shops, garden 
clubs, and women’s clubs are on our list. Plans are made to contact all 
civic clubs and ask for 15 minutes to give a program on hawks and owls. 
Charts will be posted in all available spots where hunting licenses are sold. 
We will reach out to all territory around us, including any counties without 
an Audubon Society. Window displays have been arranged, including 
charts, pictures and stuffed birds. 
Many State Conservation Departments have ordered these charts; 
Illinois has not. Our Conservation Department has been contacted and 
urged to order. Next year we will attempt to have them distributed at the 
Conservation Building at the State Fair, and also at our own county fair. 
The colored charts on hawks and owls (20”x30”) from National Audubon 
Society will be presented to schools. Also the four page leaflets on: the 
Red Shouldered Hawk, Red Tailed Hawk, Sharp-Shinned Hawk, Sparrow 
Hawk, Barn Owl, Burrowing Owl, and Screech Owl. These were given this 
summer to our playgrounds for their museums. 
We plan to distribute these interesting and educational leaflets: 1. ‘“Preda- 
tor Control — Why and How” from the state of Missouri, Conservation 
Commission, Jefferson City, Mo. (25c); 2. “Why the Hawk is Your 
Friend” by Millie Reynolds, 5293 Bedford St., Detroit 24, Mich. (free) ; 
3. “Indiana Hawks and Owls” from the Indiana Conservation Department, 
Indianapolis (15c). ; 
Space does not allow listing all of the many other helpful items from 
the National Audubon Society. If your Society is planning such a project, 
write to the National Audubon Society for a sample of their hawk chart, 
together with their plans for a “Hawk and Owl campaign.” Full credit 
must be given here to the National Society for our own project. 
To quote from the book, North American Birds of Prey: “ You have a 
job cut out for you — and it is a ‘grass roots’ educational job. Enlist the 
interest of your friends and neighbors in better protection for the raptores 
and try to see to it that the facts are spread widely in schools, youth 
groups, and farmers’ and sportsmen’s organizations. The Future of the 
Birds of Prey Is in Your Hands.” 
Decatur Audubon Society, P.O. Box 287, Decatur, Illinois 
