Tales from the Archives - 1971

a. “Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.”

b. “Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.”

c. “Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.”

a. While there were provisions in the State statues for bounty on wolves, there never was a provision for bounties on coyotes.

b. Foxes (gray and red) were on bounty lists until 1935, when bounty was discontinued due to a surprisingly rapid decline in the red foxes’ populations.

c. By the 1960s in the agricultural counties of Jasper and Crawford, if a hunter could turn in a groundhog’s tail, the bounty payment of $2.00 was issued.

a. “I love thy rock and rills, thy woods and trampled hill.”

b. “In all the crowded universe There is but one stupendous word – ‘Love’.”

c. “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”

a. The National Audubon Society notified of the Assistant Secretary of Interior about the discovery of several dead eagles in a remote canyon in Casper, Wyoming.

b. Advocacy was voiced for more wilderness areas in the Shawnee and against clear-cut timber sales and equestrian abuse. The Audubon Society is one of many organizations voicing concern.

c. A group of 70 organizations and 500 health care workers sent a letter to the Chicago Department of Public Health emphasizing how air pollution and disease burdens were inequitable in Chicago.

a. Hertel & Reuss Binoculars, 7x35 lightweight, could be purchased at $249.99.

b. The price of a life membership is $1000.

c. The Society’s Wildlife Sanctuary Sign is available for purchase at $1.05 each.

a. When Jacques-Yves Cousteau wrote Life And Death In A Coral Sea, he was a young and relatively unknown marine explorer writing about a mission to study and photograph the complex coral areas of the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean.

b. The discussion of What’s Ahead For Our Public Lands, a summary and review of the Public Land Law Review Commission, includes a mention of Representative John Saylor’s criticism of President Clinton for his support of the National Timber Supply Bill.

c. Mammals of the Grand Canyon is praised in an essay which states that the book’s author Professor Donald F. Hoffmeister, director of the Museum of Natural History at University of Illinois, has the rare ability to make a scientific reference book enjoyable reading.

a. Research to be conducted by Tom J. Cade, research director at Cornell’s Laboratory of Ornithology, will be funded by a grant of $45,300 from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

b. The NFS grant will fund research about osprey, eleven of which are being housed in Cornell’s semi-enclosed experimental breeding chambers.

c. The first phase of the research funded by NSF will be to study what environmental factors have brought about the rapid decline in peregrine falcon populations.

a. The report indicated a 47% increase in the number of hens performing courtship displays (flutter-jumping, inflation of air sacs, etc.) on the booming grounds over that of in 1970.

b. A total of 62 prairie chicken nests were found on the sanctuary near Bogota [Illinois] this year [1971].

c. Nest searches on eight census areas in six counties surrounding the Bogota area reveal that habitats favorable for prairie-chickens’ breeding and nesting remain plentiful outside of the sanctuary in 1971.

a. Pine Siskin

b. Cassin’s Finch

c. House Finch

a. Audubon’s warbler

b. Prothonotary warbler

c. Louisiana waterthrush