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County Forest Preserve District, said the initial project involving 17 acres 
may take a year to complete. 
THE GREATER ROCKFORD AIRPORT AUTHORITY has pledged to protect a prairie 
strip of rare flowers and grasses “if at all possible.” The tract is a narrow, 
south-facing gravelly slope between the Kishwaukee River flood plain and 
the glacial outwash terrace on which the airport is situated. The campaign 
to preserve the area was instituted by Dr. Egbert W. Fell, a Rockford expert 
on native plants, after he learned of plans to use the land for winter grazing 
of cattle. Much of his success was due to the energetic support of Hal Nel- 
son, managing editor of the Rockford Morning Star. 
Two IMPORTANT CONSERVATION BILLS are now before Congress, and should 
come up for a vote in the next few weeks. The first is the Wilderness Preser- 
vation Bill, introduced in the Senate as S. 1176 by Senator Hubert Humph- 
rey of Minnesota, and co-sponsored by Senator Paul Douglas of Illinois and 
in the House (as H.R. 500) by Rep. Barratt O’Hara of Illinois. This bill 
will define wilderness areas, will affirm that they are to be protected (this 
covers major parts of 163 tracts, including our national parks, national 
forests, national monuments, wildlife reservations and Indian territories), 
and will establish a National Wilderness Preservation Council. Authority 
and responsibility for protection of these areas will be placed in Congress. 
Letters in support of this bill should be sent at once to Senators Humphrey 
and Douglas, to Senator James Murray, Chairman of the Senate Committee 
on Interior Affairs, and to your own representative. 
The second bill, S. 846 or H.R. 3592, sponsors a National Outdoor Recrea- 
tion Resources Review Commission which will evaluate the outdoor recrea- 
tion resources of the country, estimate our future requirements, and recom- 
mend programs for preserving natural areas, parks and wildlife according 
to future recreational needs. Again, you should write to the people mentioned 
above to express your support of this bill. And if you are serious about pre- 
serving the scenic resources and wildlife you now enjoy for the benefit of 
future generations, you should send contributions to the organization which 
is publicizing and promoting both bills, the Trustees for ‘Conservation, 251 
Kearney Street, San Francisco 8, California. 593 &. wesley St., Wheaton, Ill. 
Cooperative Migration Study — Spring, 1957 
By LeRoy TUNSTALL and JAMES ZIMMERMAN 
A WORTHWHILE PROJECT in which every bird student should participate is 
the Cooperative Study of Bird Migration being conducted through the Pa-. 
tuxent Research Refuge at Laurel, Md. It is only too seldom that the ama- 
teur is encouraged to make a real contribution to our knowledge of nature. 
Many persons who keep their own notes on birds observed each year may 
not realize how much could be learned if all of their records could be brought 
together and studied at one time. The observation powers of every bird 
watcher would be stimulated if he realized that the birds he was recording 
were being checked for appearance by hundreds of persons simultaneously. 
This is a serious migration study, not just a list of dates of birds “First 
Seen.” What is wanted are records of “first seen or heard” where the ob- 
server has reason to believe that the species actually arrived in his area on 
