idee ADU BONG (Bi LE i bei N 3 
yn Commission modeled after the 
ecessful one in Missouri. 
The eight Illinois congressmen who 
Jed with President Nixon on the 
nds for water pollution control 
ve been severely criticized by 
any conservation and civic clubs. 
xon has been taken to task by the 
erra Club and the Izaak Walton 
~ague for his failure to support 
dly-needed funds to establish new 
tional parks. Budget Director Ro- 
rt Mayo wrote to House Interior 
ymmittee Chairman Wayne Aspi- 
11 and told him “there would be 
»new funds for national parks for 
e next four years.” 
Purple Martins will nest as late 
June, according to author J. L. 
ade. Martins usually return each 
ar to the same house they used 
e year before, so new martin 
uses will be the last to be oc- 
pied ... The Environmental De- 
nse Fund, known for its legal 
sht against the use of DDT, has 
ed a suit in Florida against the 
‘oss-Florida Canal. Among other 
ings, this canal will destroy the 
med Oklawaha River. Our old 
iend, the U.S. Corps of Engineers, 
bungling its way through that 
00 million project. These boon- 
gegles are often aided and sup- 
rted by local Chambers of Com- 
erce and conservative congressmen 
ho are aghast at federal money 
fi fi 
being used for national parks or 
wildlife protection. 
The Illinois Audubon Society, 
under leadership of Dr. Paul Moor- 
ing, is making a study of the bounty 
system in [Illinois counties. It is 
hoped that with the cooperation of 
other conservation clubs, and county 
officials, that most bounties can be 
eliminated The Appalachian 
Trail was first begun in 1922 and 
completed in 1937. A 35-member ad- 
visory council aids in the protection 
of the trail. A new triangular device 
is planned as the standard marker 
for the trail, a 2,000 mile-footpath... 
An international Klondike Park is 
being planned by Canada and the 
U.S.A. Portions of Alaska, British 
Columbia, and the Yukon Territory 
would be involved in this plan. 
From 1897 to 1905, thousands of 
miners from many nations made 
their way across the mountain trails 
north of Skagway to the Yukon ter- 
mtLoryeeelney chilkoots irail® crosses 
rugged coastal mountains. Travelers 
may now make the trip by means of 
the fascinating White Horse and 
Yukon railroad The Prairie 
Chicken Foundation of Illinois will 
hold its annual dinner and booming 
ground trip at Olney, on the week- 
end of April 11-12. 
—615 Rochdale Circle 
Lombard, III. 60148 
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Tree forms dim—dusk falls; 
stub lengthwise on Summer branch? 
listen—brown bird calls! 
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