erie DU ds OeNy Be Ue Mellel IN 
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Prairie Chicken 
was collected. We bought additional acreage and had 80 acres given 
to us by Mr. McCormack of Sulphur Spring, Mo. Then The Nature 
Conservancy in Illinois, under the enthusiastic leadership of Glen 
Sanderson, got behind the movement. Under his leadership, over 800 
acres in Jasper County. have been acquired. All the P.C.F.I. interests 
have been transferred to the Prairie Grouse Committee of N.C. and 
to the State Illinois Department of Conservation. 
I especially wish to express my deep gratitude to some of the 
outstanding backers of our endeavor: Elton Fawks, Raymond Mostek, 
Ralph Smith, John Slachter, Lou Stannard, George Fell, Tom Evans, 
James Eaton, and especially the late Ralph Yeatter. It was through 
the dedicated effort of these individuals that our dream came true. 
I hereby, as president of the board of the P.C.F.I., present the 
present sanctuary to the State Department of Conservation to be 
dedicated as nature preserves for the preservation of our native 
Prairie Grouse. 
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