eee LU OWN OBL. Bren 
Here are a few examples of how 
. curiously -stagnant Congress 
eacts towards funding water pol- 
ution legislation: 
(A) Grants for treatment plants 
rere authorized at $1 billion. The 
ppropriation for 1970 is but 
214,000,000. 
(B) The authorization for Air 
ollution Control is $134 million. 
he appropriation for 1970 is $95.8 
illion. 
(C) Grants for water and sewer 
mstruction is authorized at $605 
illion. The 1970 appropriation is 
ut $135 million. 
(D) Water planning grants are 
uthorized at $5.2 million. The 1970 
opropriation is set for $2.4 million. 
Needless to say, the Nixon ad- 
inistration has called for only 
vo national parks, the Potomac 
ational River and the Apostle 
lands National Lakeshore. Funds 
r the Indiana Dunes, authorized 
veral years ago, are being under- 
nded. The U.S. Army Corps of 
ngineers takes up to about one- 
ird of the natural resource bud- 
t; this is expected from a “pork- 
rel Congress,” which normally 
oceeds without any well-formu- 
ted environmental planning. The 
rk-barrel is usually urged upon 
mgress by the  white-flannel 
isiness men from. the local 
1ambers of Commerce across the 
tion who are usually horified at 
penditures for al) other pro- 
ams concerning natural resource 
otection. 
National defense expenses take 
$81.7 billions; health and wel- 
re take up $55 billions; $8.2 bil- 
NS goes to veterans; interest 
<es up $17 billion; space explora- 
n gets $4.0 billions, and natural 
source spending adds up to about 
$3.7 billion—near the bottom of’ 
general classifications. 
Meanwhile the United Nations 
General Assembly has agreed to 
hold a UN Conference of Human 
Environment in 1972. The call is 
being made because of the ac- 
celerating impairment of the hu- 
man environment caused by air 
pollution, soil erosion, water pol- 
lution, waste, noise, and secondary 
effects of biocides, plus the ac- 
celeration of urbanization and the 
burgeoning of human population. 
This is what the Audubon move- 
ment is all about—the preservation 
of our human and natural environ- 
ment on our fragile spaceship 
called Earth. 
NOTES FROM THE NEST: The 
famed Wisconsin hearings to ban 
DDT have been continued because 
of delays brought by the chemical 
industries. These delays are costly 
to conservationists who must raise 
funds to pay for witnesses who are 
often flown in from other states to 
testify The recent five-state 
Governor’s conference near Chicago 
was harshly criticized by several 
conservation groups and the. press 
as mere foot-dragging. The meet- 
ing was called because of “concern” 
over DDT levels in Lake Michigan. 
Another “study” was proposed by 
the five executives who incident- 
ally all belong to one political 
party . ‘Ihe Hoy” Bixd’-Club re- 
ports that President Nixon is not 
too fond of okaying funds for a 
proposed Apostle Islands National 
Lakeshore. The money is “needed” 
for the Vietnam war which is now 
costing over $28.1 billion annually. 
The “war” has never been official- 
ly declared by Congress. The Hoy 
Bird Club reports that Senator 
