THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 
Published Quarterly by the 
ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY 
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, II]. 60605 
Number 157 March 1971 
THE NINE NATIONAL CONSERVATION PRIORITIES 
OF THE NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY 
Continuing Long-Range Goals: 
1. Advocate stabilization of human population as basic to the 
preservation of environmental quality. 
2. Work for abatement and preservation of all forms of en- 
vironmental pollution including debasement of the atmosphere, 
the waters of the earth, and the landscape. 
3. Preserve our vital, productive, and eco-essential estuarine 
and wetland resources. 
4. Change our national transportation policy, shifting the emph- 
asis in public investment and public subsidy from highways to 
mass transportation. 
Special-Action Priorities for 1971: 
5. Eliminate the use of DDT, dieldrin, aldrin, endrin, toxaphene, 
and other persistent (long-lasting) organo-chlorine pesticides that 
pollute the environment, poison food-chains, and endanger many 
species of wildlife. 
6. Protect the Public Land resources of the United States. Pre- 
pare to meet and turn back the expected raids by exploitive inter- 
ests who will try to gain special advantages from the 1970 report 
of the Public Land Law Review Commission. 
7. \lluminate and resist “stream channelization”, a destructive 
engineering fad supported by federal funds that threatens the 
ecology and beauty of scores of natural streams in the United States. 
8. Seek federal protection for the hawks and owls. 
9. Seek reform and reduction of the federal program that 
results in the widespread, ecologically unsound and generally un- 
necessary poisoning and trapping of carnivorous wild animals. 
