—— 
Nelson feels that the 21 islands are 
of national park caliber ... Mather 
Gorge on the Potomac River will 
be dedicated in 1969 to honor the 
first director of the National Park 
Service, Stephen T. Mather. The 
gorge extends almost three miles 
downstream from the Great Falls 
and waters of the Potomac tall sor 
a distance of 76 feet over a massive 
outcrop. 
The World Wildlife Fund (910 
17th St., NW, Washington 20006) 
is raising funds to save the famed 
Wetlands of New Jersey. These 
lands are summer breeding and 
feeding grounds for more than 
25,000 herons, egrets and ibis. In 
winter more than 100,000 brant 
gather in addition to snow geese 
and Canada geese, and Black Duck, 
teal and baldpate are also found 
there ... The Cornell Laboratory 
of Ornithology has just issued a 
new record on Caribbean bird 
songs for $4.69. Birds of Puerto 
Rico and the Virgin Islands were 
recorded The Wilderness So- 
ciety is sponsoring 45 different 
trips into the wilderness of our 
national parks and forests. They 
present exciting horseback, canoe 
trips and walking trips with the 
prices ranging from $195 to $335 
(a marvelous bargain). For infor- 
mation write to: Wilderness Society 
0850 East Jewell Ave., Denver, 
Colo. 80222. 
One-half of the government does 
not know what the other half is 
doing and sometimes does not care: 
At Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee, an 
ancient stand of cypress trees were 
leveled to make room for a federal- 
ly financed airport ... An arm of 
the federal government wants to 
THE AUDUBON BUD eee 
build an 80-unit lodge in Fa 
Creek Falls State Park near Pike 
ville, and, near Memphis, the 1,000 
acre Fuller State Park has bee 
reduced to half the former size 
Part of the park is permanenth 
occupied by the carless colonels o 
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer; 
famed as the most wasteful burea 
in the U.S. government establish 
ment ... In East Los _ Angele: 
Hazard Park may lose 18 of it 
25 acres to the Veterans Admin 
istration for a 1,100-bed hospita! 
Conservationists angry at Mayo 
Yorty for this weird operation hay 
- pointed out several alternate sites 
but he had cooked up this dea 
with the VA back in 1963. Euea 
lyptus trees will fall under thi 
program. Even the LA parks direc 
tor says: “The parkland lost is no 
that valuable to the people.” ...h 
Chicago, Mayor Daley wants t 
swap some park land for school 
and library sites. The parks hav 
suffered greatly under Daley’ 
tenure—now the longest in th 
city’s history. Daley has _ bee! 
severely criticized by conservation 
ists for his abject failure to sav 
the Edgewater Golf Course for | 
city park. The area is marked fo 
another “high-rise development. 
Chicago ranks far below othe 
major cities in ratio of park t 
people The Indiana Dept. 0 
Natural Resources is buying 5,40: 
acres of land for a new state par! 
at Edinburg from the federal gov 
ernment. It is a former army cam] 
The DuPage County Fores 
Preserve District is buying 80 
acres near Winfield along the Wes 
DuPage River. It has just Wee 
saved from the land developers. 
—615 Rochdale Cirel¢ 
. Lombard 6014 
