8 T HE tAtUr DIU BONG BU Tel eae 
Conservation News and Notes 
By LeRoy TUNSTALL 
IF WE ARE TO ENJOY the beauty of forests and streams and preserve our wild- 
life for the future, we must begin to conserve today. Whether in our back 
yards, city or state parks, state or national forests, or in the fields which we 
enjoy while driving, we share in the responsibility for protection of our wild- 
life and outdoor resources. Pollution of streams must be stopped, as must 
excessive cutting of our forests. Reforestation must be pushed. 
Our greatest hope for real conservation lies in getting our young people 
interested, and impressing upon them the need and value of saving natural 
resources before it is too late. The organizing of Junior Audubon Societies 
and Smokey the Bear programs are good means of teaching our youth. 
AN EXCERPT FROM Conservation News reads as follows: “Several thousands 
of years ago a man named Solomon, reputed to have profound wisdom, built 
a temple to exalt his ego. To accomplish this he cut down the cedar forests 
of Lebanon, and in so doing set in motion the processes of land erosion that 
have cursed Lebanon up to the present day. Much of the land has been 
washed away to bedrock. Multitudes suffer long after the seekers of glory, 
pomp, and power have returned to dust.” 
BRUCE’s Eppy DAM was left in the Rivers and Harbors omnibus bill by the 
Senate Public Works Committee. Final committee action was taken on 
March 19. This dam would destroy steelhead and salmon migrations and 
flood large game feeding ranges. Conservationists have fought authorization 
of the project until current Fish and Wildlife studies are completed. Here 
is what must be done immediately: WIRE YOUR SENATOR! Urge him 
to be present when the omnibus bill (S. 497) is taken up on the senate floor 
and ask him to vote for the amendment to delete Bruce’s Eddy Dam. 
WHY INDUSTRIAL POLLUTORS should fight a sewage-treatment program has 
mystified many people. There are two obvious reasons: First, certain indus- 
trial interests fear the buildup of any strong government program to control 
pollution. Second, cleaning up of municipal sewage will point the finger of 
blame for continuing water pollution directly at offending industries. As it 
is now, with raw city sewage contaminating many rivers, the public cannot 
sort out the smell of destructive industrial wastes above the general stench. 
FOREST AND GRASS FIRES are destructive. Let us be careful and help to pre- 
vent them. There is no better education method on this problem than the 
Smokey the Bear program. We would be only too glad to tell “The True 
Story of Smokey the Bear” and distribute posters, ink blotters, bookmarks, 
and other literature to help people become more conscious of the results of 
fires carelessly set. If interested in this presentation, write to Mr. LeRoy 
Tunstall, 323 E. Wesley St., Wheaton, Ill., if in the northern part of the 
state. If in the central or southern part of Illinois, write to Mrs. C. O. Rus- 
sell, P.O. Box 287, Decatur, III. 
DEVELOPMENT OF A 400 ACRE forest preserve south of Chicago was scheduled 
to start before this issue of the Bulletin went to press with the digging of 
an artificial lake west of the Calumet Expressway and north of the Little 
Calumet River. Charles G. Sauers, general superintendent of the Cook 
