40 TH Ear ACU DiveBrOrNa Db Ur beleiere ety 
Mrs. Christine Naebig, Cicero 
*Mr. & Mrs. Robert Naftzger, Chicago 
Russel Neswick, Riverdale 
Carl J. Neubauer, Oak Lawn 
**B, J. Noyes, Oak Brook 
*Robert & Marlene Oehmig, Chicago 
*Gene Olmsted, Worth 
** Jean Olsen, Chicago 
Jerrold W. Olson, Joliet 
Richard N- Paulsen, Villa Park 
June Petrick, Hinsdale 
Margaret R. Petrie, Park Forest 
Joseph Ptak, Brookfield 
Mrs. Donald G. Rapley, Broadview 
Nellie V. Reed, Chicago 
* Arthur H. Reinitz, Chicago 
Harlan Richards, Chicago 
Dr. Alice Eve Richter, Chicago 
Mrs. Katherine M. Riddle, 
Mrs. Thomas P. Sheridan, Chicago 
Raymend K. Siffert, Chicago 
Louise Adele Sipfle, Oak Brook 
*Ross D. Siragusa, Jr., Lake Forest 
*Forest & Betty Spahr, Plano 
*R. Svoboda, La Grange Park 
Roland O. Swanson, Chicago 
*Mr. & Mrs. Roy L. Thomas, Chicago 
R. R. Tindall, Macon 
**Mrs- Alan Triebold, Fox River Grove 
*** Oliver K. Tyler, Hinsdale 
*Edmund Unruh, Chicago 
Suzanne M. Vlach, Chicago 
H. Von Kaenel, Jr., Broadview 
Marian Wald, Chicago 
*Mr. & Mrs. Lee Ward, Hampshire 
David Watson, Westville 
Leah Weisman, Chicago 
***Mrs. Medard W. Welch, Winnetka 
Highland Park 
*Henry J. Samec, Downers Grove 
Betty J. Sann, Oak Lawn 
Natalie Satiel, Chicago 
***Caroline Buck Sauter, Kenilworth 
*Herbert Schneiderman, Highland Park 
**Everett E. Sentman, Lake Forest 
*Eloise & Jeanette Senyan, Chicago 
Theresa M. Seperich, Chicago 
Mrs. John Sexton, River Forest 
M. L. Whitaker, Oak Park 
Marion Wiabel, Tinley Park 
Ellen Williams, Glenview 
Mrs. Ray Williamson, Robinson 
Mrs. Marguerite G- Wilmot, Skokie 
*R. Norman Wood, Hinsdale 
** Otto R. Wormser, Oak Park 
Brian Zadigian, Waukegan 
**M. Zar, Highland Park 
Strip-Mine Reclamation Ponds 
Attract New Waterfowl Flocks 
The restoration of mined-out coal-producing areas in the heart of Illinois’ 
corn country is gradually showing increased wildlife benefits, says E. E. 
Filer, supervisor of the surface-mined land reclamation section of the 
Illinois Department of Conservation. 
“Nearly 65,000 mallards were in duck and goose flocks at strip mine 
ponds in December in Knox and Fulton counties.” Filer said. “Counts of 
waterfowl in these areas are now of sufficient importance to be included 
in the weekly aerial surveys of Frank C. Bellrose, Illinois Natural History 
Survey biologist.” 
The big concentration of mallards was on ponds of the Peabody Coal 
Co., northwest of Farmington, where 50,000 of the species were reported 
along with several hundred black ducks, 700 Canada geese and 200 
Richardson’s geese, a smaller sub-species of the Canada. 
Ponds in diggings on the Wier farm held 9,500 mallards; at the Banner 
Mine of United Electric Co. there were 3,700; at Buckheart Mine of United 
Electric, 1,000, and on the Gale farm, 800 of the species. 
Location of these scattered mine ponds, around Canton, is in the area 
being developed as habitat and a possible nesting area for the Giant 
Canada goose, according to George Arthur, conservation department water- 
fowl biologist. 
