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Windsor to visit the Jack Miner Sanctuary than for any other reason. 
On Sunday afternoons there are often as many as a thousand people 
at one time. The numbers of visitors to the Jackson Park Bird 
Sanctuary is also an indication of the popularity of such places when 
they are easily accessible. 
Preceding me on the program was the owner of a bus line which 
serves commuters between Orland Park and Chicago. He had consid- 
ered discontinuing service, at least on certain runs, because of the 
small number of passengers at present. At the present time few people 
know about the Orland Wildlife Refuge because it is comparatively 
inaccessible, and little dream that such a beautiful wildlife area could 
exist so close to Chicago. This project has great possibilities for edu- 
cation. Conservation needs publicity. I suggested that the bus line 
might help advertise it, notify conservation groups as to schedules 
during migration periods so that schools and other groups might 
charter buses to bring their children there. Furthermore, I suggested 
that the present sewer system might be a menace to health as well 
as a menace to wildlife, and that flooding the area would not only 
beautify the town but help to clear up the mosquito situation. 
There seem to be few things that an enthusiastic women’s club 
can not accomplish and if they sponsor this project I believe they will 
produce gratifying results. 
Robert E. Smart, 
Jackson Park Bird Sanctuary, Chicago. 
A Summer Bird List from Warren Woods, near Sawyer, 
Michigan 
For several years I have spent two weeks in late June and July 
at Tower Hill Camp near Sawyer, Michigan, where one can study 
many natural features from pioneer vegetation among the dunes of 
Lake Michigan to a climax forest of about one hundred acres known 
as Warren Woods, now supervised, I believe, by the University of 
Michigan. The Galien River, a small crooked stream with huge syca- 
mores along the bank, skirts one edge of the area. 
Many of the beech and sugar maples are five hundred years old, 
one hundred twenty-five feet in height, and six feet in diameter. The 
seedlings of the ground cover are almost exclusively maples. The 
beeches have an abundance of seeds but are not reproducing as are 
the maples. Spice bush, witch-hazel, papaw, and bladder nut are com- 
mon shrubs. White trillium, partridge berry, maidenhair, Christmas 
fern, and the evergreen wood fern thrive on the bed of leaves. The 
wood frog (Rana cantabrigensis) proves as interesting to most visitors 
as the giant trees. While searching among the leaves for these gold- 
spectacled frogs, one is likely to encounter woodcocks probing the 
