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The President’s Column 
THE OFFICERS AND Directors of the Illinois Audubon Society realize keenly 
the need for more participation in the work of the Society by the members 
at large. This column is part of a program for this purpose. The by-laws 
have been revised with provision for an annual meeting in the spring at 
the Chicago Natural History Museum for members only, when there will 
be a program and some transaction of business. The first such meeting is 
scheduled for the early part of 1952. The annual tea in January, first held 
in 1949, is an effort in this direction. It has proved to be a great success. 
The Board of Directors at their December meeting accepted the resigna- 
tion of the editor of the Bulletin, Mr. John R. Bayless, with great regret. 
Mr. Bayless has served efficiently for two years, and there was no one in 
sight to take his place. So I took over the job of assembling material for 
this number with help from Mr. Charles Decker, who was the editor for 
ten years preceding Mr. Bayless. At the tea on January 28, we contacted 
Mr. Paul Lobik who agreed to take over the editorship. He assumed the 
work a few days later, preparing copy previously submitted for publica- 
tion. Mr. Lobik is assistant advertising manager for the Central Scientific 
Company, and has had considerable experience which will be of value in 
the editing of the Bulletin. 
The Illinois Audubon Society, as pointed out by Mr. Decker in this 
issue, was organized at a time when the killing of wild birds for millinery 
purposes threatened the extinction of some species. Protection of birds and 
stimulation of bird study by amateurs were the main objectives of the 
Society. Later, its activities were extended to conservation of natural re- 
sources in general, especially of wild life. It is therefore logical that we 
print the following conservation material: 
Conservation News and Notes 
Bald Eagle Bill. The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill this 
past summer which would extend to the bald eagle in Alaska the same pro- 
tection which it gets in the United States. Senator Edward C. Johnson, 
chairman of the Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Affairs, in- 
troduced a companion bill in the Senate, and he tried unsuccessfully near 
the end of the session to get unanimous consent to its passage. In view of 
the disgraceful slaughter of the bald eagle in Alaska, this failure was most 
disappointing. There is danger of extermination of this fine bird in Alaska 
and in the United States. A campaign of education is needed if we are to 
save it. 
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Dinosaur National Monument. The proposal to invade the Dinosaur 
National Monument in northeastern Colorado and northwestern Utah by 
conscruction of two high dams for irrigation and power development was 
approved during the last summer by Secretary of the Interior Oscar L. 
Chapman. One of the dams would be built across the Yampa River at Echo 
Park, near the juncture with the Green River. The other dam would be 
built in Split Mountain Canyon across the Green River itself, below the 
