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Conservation Notes and News 
By Dr. R. M. STRONG 
INDIANA DUNES PROJECT. The women who make up the Save the Dunes 
Council are active in the effort to save the remaining unoccupied Indiana 
Dunes. Unfortunately, not many men are. Although various chapters of 
the Izaak Walton League in northern Indiana were contacted two or more 
years ago, the response was feeble. The average man in that region thinks 
more of possible financial gain if industry occupies the region, and many 
of the wives share this viewpoint. In view of the apathy and greed en- 
countered, it is remarkable that so much has been accomplished. 
There is a big job of education to be done. The people must be shown 
the advantages to themselves and their descendants of saving this wonder- 
ful area. They also need to learn that much of the hope of making money 
from industry in the region is illusory for most of them. 
The Save the Dunes Council needs more help than it is getting. Northern 
Indiana people sometimes say ““Why should we develop park facilities which 
would be used mostly by Chicago people?” Though they overlook the recre- 
ational values for the rapidly growing populations of nearby Indiana cities, 
there is justification for expecting support from the Chicago region. Large 
numbers of Chicago people use the Indiana Dunes State Park, and many 
of them visit the region we are trying to save. One way to help is to write 
to Mrs. Willard Butz, Box 952, Ogden Dunes, Gary 5, Indiana, asking for 
information. Checks of any denomination, even just a dollar, would be 
welcome to help support the work of the Council. 
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Key DEER, The National Wildlife Federation in a “Report to the Key Deer 
Fund Contributors,” dated August 20, 1953, stated that the 1954 appropria- 
tion for the Department of the Interior carried a provision authorizing 
the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service to use a reasonable part of its regular 
game management funds to lease lands for the protection of the Key Deer. 
A total of 70 adult animals was reported, with enough fawns to raise the 
total population to 90 or 100 animals. They occur on a number of Florida 
Keys, all but three on eight different Keys. This news is encouraging for 
preservation of this species. 
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LAND-GRABBING. Shrewdly planned bills were introduced in the last session 
of Congress to pass special interest bills designed to favor the cattle barons, 
some lumbermen and certain mining groups. Though not successful, it is 
expected that the bills will come up again in the next session. The Western 
land-grabbers are trying to capitalize on a plank that was slipped into the 
Republican national platform a year ago last summer. One shrewd effort 
