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OuR LAWMAKERS SHOULD also be applauded for establishing a 1,000-acre 
Federal Refuge for the nearly extinct Key deer of Florida. This has ended 
nearly a decade of meek submission to a small group of local opposition. 
Unfortunately, the conservation measures not acted upon overshadow those 
that were successful. 
Here are some of the important problems that will have to be held in 
abeyance until Congress takes them up again in January: 1. The Military 
Lands Withdrawal Bill, which would place Congressional curbs on Penta- 
gon requests for public land areas, and would require compliance with 
state game laws on military reservations. 2. Strengthening of the Coordina- 
tion Act, a 1946 measure designed to protect fish and wildlife resources at 
water development projects. 3. A bill to protect designated wilderness areas 
in federal lands and National Forests. 4. Legislation to speed up the preser- 
vation and acquisition of waterfowl marshes threatened by drainage 
projects. 5. A bill to establish an Outdoor Recreation Resources Review 
Commission. 6. Control of billboards on the new federal system of inter- 
state highways. 7. Legislation to make the old Chesapeake and Ohio Canal 
along the Potomac River into a national historical park. 
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SENATOR GORDON ALLOTT of Colorado introduced a bill into the Senate that 
would make Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado and Utah our 30th 
National Park. This was the area that was so bitterly contested just two 
years ago, when local groups tried to force the building of a dam that 
would have destroyed the series of spectacular canyons on the Green and 
Yampa Rivers. We have an illustrated bulletin discussing this bill which 
we will send to anyone on request. Senator Allott will need all the help he 
can get if his bill is to succeed in the next session of Congress. Send him a 
letter of encouragement; his address is: Hon. Gordon Allott, U.S. Senate, 
Senate Office Building, Washington 25, D.C. Copies of your letter should 
go to your own Senators and Representatives to let them know of your in- 
terest. Let’s show everyone that we are as much in favor of making Dino- 
saur a National Park as we were against the building of Echo Park Dam. 
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THE BoYyKIN Duck STAMP BILL has been reintroduced as H.R. 8699. It 
maintains the Duck Stamp at its present price of $2.00, but will allocate 
65% of receipts for the study and acquisition of more waterfowl refuges. 
Duck hunters and conservationists have been dismayed to find that of the 
$52,000,000 collected from hunters since the Duck Stamp Act was passed 
in 1934, less than 15% has been spent for addition of lands to the National 
Wildlife Refuge System. The original purpose of the bill had been the ac- 
quisition of waterfowl refuges. 
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RANCHERS IN THE TOPONAS district of Colorado, wishing to protect their 
cattle, exterminated the coyotes. They soon noticed that their pasture land 
was no longer able to support as many animals as before. With nothing to 
interfere, rabbits, gophers and other rodents began to over-run the meadows. 
Now the ranchers are encouraging coyotes to breed. 
