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Conservation News and Notes 
By LERoyY TUNSTALL 
Tuk NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION of Washington, D.C. announces that 
March 17 through 23, 1957 has been proclaimed National Wildlife Week. 
This is the week in which newspapers, TV programs and radio will em- 
phasize the importance of preserving our wildlife and natural resources. 
Sportsmen’s clubs, nature societies, civic organizations and youth groups 
can help promote Wildlife Week in the following ways: 
Plan conservation meetings, with speakers and movies. 
Arrange conservation programs for school assemblies. 
Sponsor window displays built around the conservation theme. 
Promote educational tours of wildlife sanctuaries. 
This is a program that should be carried on not just during Wildlife 
Week, but all through the year. If we are to save our natural heritage for 
the future, we will have to conserve it today. 
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SPRING IS COMING ON, and nature-minded people are already planning to 
get out into the forests, fields and parks. Many will be traveling to our 
National Parks, forests, and monuments. Then our natural resources, trees, 
flowers, animals and birds will again be threatened by forest fires. Let’s 
educate the public on how to be careful of forest fires by following these 
rules: 
. Crush out your smokes. 
. Break your matches in two before throwing them away. 
. Drown your campfires. 
. Use caution with fires wherever you are. 
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*temember only you can prevent forest fires. If you know any group that 
would like to hear the true story of Smokey the Bear (a story that will 
touch the hearts of adults as well as young people), write to LeRoy Tun- 
stall, 323 E. Wesley Street, Wheaton, Illinois. 
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It Is ALways difficult to pass water pollution control legislation. This is 
due to the fact that water polluters on a large scale amount to powerful 
vested interests in this country. Many streams are being contaminated by 
cities, industries or towns that are reluctant to start paying for adequate 
treatment of their wastes. The Illinois Legislature is in session now, and we 
should write to our representatives that stricter laws are needed in this 
state to clean up our rivers. 
Huge amounts of foam were seen last month in the branch of the DuPage 
river that flows through Warrenville. The cause was said to be some deter- 
gent that was killing the fish. The article in the Wheaton Daily Journal 
read: “There were signs that said ‘No Hunting’; they might as well have 
said ‘No Fishing.’” 
