THE AUDUBON BULLE TUN 
REMEMBER THIS WEEKEND / SEPT. 20-21 
SAM POUT TTME 
at East Bay Camp on Lake Bloomington 
North of Bloomington, fil. 
HOST CLUB: CARDINAL AUDUBON SOCIETY 
“Editor, The Wall Street Journal: 
Re your page-one article, “Should the Woodsman Spare 
That Tree?’ (May 27): 
Don’t these forestry types sometimes wonder how 
forests ever survived for tens of millions of years without 
their interference? If there were more virgin timber left 
in this country, forestry students could see for themselves 
how a forest cares for itself. For example, no human hand 
is necessary to remove dead trees: Hosts of minute crea- 
tures accomplish this ‘harvesting’ organically in a way that 
incidentally contributes to the soil. To say that a mature 
forest ruins the land is utter nonsense. 
It is true that some species of animals and plants thrive 
in ecologically disturbed areas, such as cut-over or fire- 
scorched lands; such conditions are by no means scarce 
today. Other organisms are adapted to climax conditions: 
Some delicate herbs and orchids required the deeply shaded 
woods which have become so rare in the East. Ironically, 
the so-called trash trees (derided by a logging executive © 
in your article) are not the product of a mature, climax 
forest, but are encouraged by cutting and fire. 
The only excuse for cutting a forest is economic. Where 
lumbering doesn’t pay, or where there are overriding 
aesthetic considerations, the woods should be left 
unmanicured.” Paul S. Boyer, Houston 
NEW LIFE MEMBERS OF IAS 
Added this fall and spring to the list of Life Members of the 
Illinois Audubon Society are Mrs. Vern Carlson, Hayward, Wis., 
a membcr since 1960 and a former director; James H. Douglas, 
Lake Forest, a new member; Helen Goembel, Freeport, a new 
member; Mrs. R. K. Hubbard, Urbana, a new member; Miriam 
H. Keare, Highland Park, a new member; Pailt Jiomaichien: 
Chicago, a member since 1956; Mrs. Robert A. Perkins, Barring- 
ton, a member since 1959; Allen N. Ransom, Winnetka, a new 
member; R. P. Rose, Glen Ellyn, a member since 1968; Ray 
Schulenberg, Lisle, a new member; Mrs. C. A. Sievert, Wood- 
stock, a member since 1966; Kate Staley, Evanston, a member 
since 1966; John Stephens, Glen Ellyn, a new member; Edmund 
B. Thornton, Ottawa, a new member; Agnes Whitmarsh, Chicago, 
a member since 1957; Mrs. Arthur M. Wood, Lake Forest, a new 
member, and Mrs. J. Howard Wood, Lake Bluff, a new member. 
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