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THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 
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Interior Issues New Conservation Yearbook, 
“It's Your World” 
“It’s Your World,” the latest conservation yearbook of the Departmen 
the Interior, underscores nation-wide advances made by individuals 
groups in improving cities and suburbs during the past several years, 
warns that more intensive action by more citizens is necessary if widespr 
abuse of the environment is to be halted. 
The new yearbook is filled with examples of how conceraed citiz 
have succeeded in many conservation projects, often in cooperation y 
Interior agencies, and contains a “Community Conservation Check] 
showing how people can fight pollution and how they can assure m 
epen space for recreation. Prefacing the checklist is the advice: “ 
recipe for a clean, appealing environment has one basic ingredient 
which there is no substitute—conservation action at the grassroots ley 
In the introduction, former Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Uc 
says: “The need for a new national attitude toward our environment _ 
grown until today it is an absolute necessity for human survival. Te 
nology has stretched and magnified our natural resource potential in mé 
areas. It has also supplied a harassed people with an infinite number 
painkillers and tranquilizers. But it cannot provide us with one square ir 
of additional planetary surface, nor do more than gloss over the mount 
environmental insults to humanity.” 
The 96-page publication has many full-color photographs to emphas 
the beauty of America, as well as the blight, but the theme generally 
one of restrained optimism that the battle against blight and for a m 
pleasant surroundings is gaining ground, even though slowly. 
“Let no citizen feel he is impotent to effect change in today’s crowd 
world,” the yearbook comments. “Everyone is concerned about his o1 
back yard. If all the ‘back yard conservationists’ were to stretch th 
vision just a little beyond their own boundary fences, America would ha 
a natural conservation task force standing literally ‘at the root of t 
problem’—every environmental problem that besets us.” | 
“It’s Your World” is available for $2.00 (plus 35c for postage & ta 
from the IAS Bookshop, 1017 Burlington Ave., Downers Grove, III. 695: 
A oh A & 
SUMMER SCHOOL: 
Southern Illinois University is offering a two-week course— 
titled “Conservation Education: Research and Field Studies” — fam 
teachers and other youth leaders on the Carbondale campus from 
Aug. 10 to 22. Announced goal of the course is to assist in imple- 
mentation of conservation education programs in schools, eom- 
munity, parks, and nature centers. Field trips and field projects 
at the nearby Conservation Education Center, Golden Pond, Ky. 
are on the program. Details on enrollment can be secured from 
Andrew H. Marcec, University’ Extension Services, S.1.U., Canam 
bondale 62901. 
