fab LU DUBON BULLETIN 
Published Quarterly by the 
Piel N On Se AsULD WB.O NS.0 CIE T Y 
2001 NorTH CLARK STREET, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 
Number 64 December, 1947 
A Vacation at the Audubon Nature Camp 
By JANET HULL ZIMMERMANN 
ARE YOU beginning to think about next summer’s vacation? And do you 
need an idea for a Christmas present from your family? Then ask them 
to send the National Audubon Society a ten dollar deposit to reserve a 
place for you at the Audubon Nature Camp in Maine. My vacation last 
summer was one of the most satisfying I have ever had, and I believe the 
50 other campers at that session felt the same way. 
ALLAN D. CRUICKSHANK FROM N.A.S. 
Audubon camp in Maine. 
The Audubon Nature Camp is conducted by the National Audubon 
Society. Its purpose is to “equip the student to plan and conduct programs 
furthering nature appreciation and the conservation of natural resources.” 
Five two-week sessions are held from the end of June through August, 
under the direction of Carl W. Buchheister, who is also vice-president of 
the Society. The camp is on Hog Island in Muskongus Bay, the first bay 
south of Penobscot Bay. The location on the tip end of a peninsula of the 
island is so beautiful that you’ll wish you had more leisure for relaxed 
enjoyment of the scenery. Behind the camp is a deep forest of spruce and 
fir. To the north and east lie the wooded islands of the bay; and only a 
few hundred yards to the west, the meadows of the mainland slope down 
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