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FLORIDA GALLINULE: These (2 pairs) were observed in the same marsh on 
May 23 and are believed to be nesting there, as the wooing performance 
was watched. 
LARK SPARROWS: Have returned to the roadside near the Girl Scout Camp, 
Dixon. Another pair is nesting at Green River Preserve. One observed May 
10 with a stick in its mouth. 
PILEATED WOODPECKER: A pair was found nesting in a huge dead tree (hole 
50 feet high) in Sun Fish Slough, south of Fulton. The adults were feeding 
at least three beaks in the elliptical hole on May 24. Photographs were 
taken. 
THE WHITE PINES BIRD CLUB counted 153 species on their spring count on 
Sunday, May 17. Nineteen observers took part in this, covering parts of 
Lee, Ogle, and Whiteside counties. It was a most successful day. 
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THE 1959 CONSERVATION AWARD 
By JOHN BAYLESS 
JOSEPH W. GALBREATH of East St. Louis, Executive Secretary of the Ca- 
hokia Nature League, was recipient of the Illinois Audubon Society’s second 
annual Conservation Award. The award, a framed citation, was presented 
to him by Raymond Mostek, Conservation Chairman, at the banquet on 
May 16 at Allerton Park. Nominee of the Cahokia Nature League, Mr. 
Galbreath was one of a number of dedicated conservationists whose names 
were submitted by affiliated clubs all over the state. 
Mr. Galbreath received his bachelor of science degree from Southern [Ili- 
nois university in 1929, his master’s degree from the University of Illinois 
in 1934, and has done additional graduate work at the University of Illinois 
and University of Missouri. He has taught in the East St. Louis public 
schools for 28 years, and has organized the general science curriculum for 
the three East St. Louis junior high schools. For the last 22 years he has 
taught biology in the East St. Louis high school. In 1943 he organized the 
first Projectionist Club for the showing of conservation films and has di- 
rected this ever since. He organized and taught the first course in victory 
gardening in the East St. Louis high school during World War II. Mr. Gal- 
breath organized and taught the first course in conservation of natural re- 
sources in the East St. Louis high school. 
A charter member of the Cahokia Nature League since 19438, he has twice 
served as its president. He has served as a member of the Scout Leaders’ 
Adult Training committee of the Mississippi Valley Council, and is a merit 
badge counselor and chairman of the Conservation Merit Badge Counselors 
Group. He has long been concerned over the decline of the prairie chicken 
in Illinois, and in 1954 he wrote an article on the subject for “Illinois Wild 
Life.”” One of the founding members of the Natural Resources Council of 
Illinois and now Vice-President, he helped get that organization interested 
in the plight of the prairie chicken. 
