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Recent hearings held by the Illinois Environmental Protective Agency 
indicated many individuals find mosquito fogging extremely detrimental 
to their health and they have filed formal complaints with the agency. 
If individuals wish to cut down on mosquitoes during an outdoor party 
in their yards, Illinois Audubon favors “black lights’ which are on the 
market and put out heat that attracts mosquitoes and executes them against 
an electric grid. People who like to give such parties should also avoid 
shrubbery in low damp places in their yards, and drain low areas that col- 
lect rain. Repellents applied to the skin are useful. Even more, Illinois 
Audubon Society favors methods used in former days, when people stayed 
on their screened porches when dusk appeared, and did not stand about 
outside half clothed, putting out the heat and carbon dioxide that 
attracts mosquitoes. 
Endangered Species Permit System Is Functioning 
A permit system has been set up to implement provisions of the Illinois 
Endangered Species Protection Act, according to Anthony T. Dean, director 
of the Department of Conservation. The act became effective May 1. 
The new law prohibits the transfer, sale or possession of animals which 
are in danger of extinction, except for zoological, educational or scientific 
purposes. It also prohibits traffic in products or skins from endangered 
animals, setting up a permit system by which persons in possession of these 
products before May 1 can retain them. 
Enacted by the General Assembly last summer, the law was to have 
become effective January 1, but his was postponed by executive order 
until May 1 to allow the permit system to be set up. 
“We are providing means for citizens to voluntarily comply with the 
law,” Director Dean said, in announcing the permit system. “Persons who 
possess skins, rugs, furniture, articles of clothing or other products made 
from rare and endangered animal species can obtain an application from 
the Conservation Department, list their articles on it, and send it in to 
gain a limited permit.” 
The Director said that enforcement provisions of the Act will be directed 
toward the commercial trade and not against the ordinary citizen in pos- 
session of personal items. “The citizen need only declare his items and 
obtain his permit. There is no fee,’’ Dean said. 
“Products” covered by the act include the “fur, hide, skin, teeth, 
feathers, tusks, claws or the body, or any portion thereof,” from an animal 
protected by the law. 
Permit application forms can be obtained from: Illinois Department of 
Conservation Division of Wildlife Resources, Attention: Vernon M. Kleen, 
non-game staff biologist, 601 State Office Building, Springfield, Ill. 62706; 
or Illinois Department of Conservation, Chicago Office, 1227 South Michigan 
Avenue, Chicago, Ill. 60605. 
Animal species for which permits must be obtained include those listed 
in the Illinois law. Others may be added as the newly-appointed Endan- 
gered Species Protection Board designates. 
Species named in the Illinois law include: leopard, snow leopard, 
clouded leopard, tiger, cheetah, alligator, cayman, crocodile, vicuna, red and 
gray wolf, polar bear, mountain lion or cougar, jaguar, ocelot, margay, kit 
fox, Pacific Ridley turtle and green turtle. 
