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FRANK BOBRYTZKE 
WILLIAM BUSSE 
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MRS. ELIZABETH A. CONKEY 
WILLIAM N. ERICKSON 
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MAURICE F. KAVANAGH 
MARY McENERNEY 
GEORGE A. MILLER 
GEORGE F. NIXON 
DANIEL RYAN 
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JOHN E. TRAEGER 
 
 
FOREST PRESERVE DISTRICT 
 
        OF COOK COUNTY 
 
               ILLINOIS 
 
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CHARLES G. SAUERS, GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT 
 
 
Professor Aldo Leopold, 
University of Wisconsins 
Madison, Wisconsin. 
 
 
River Forest, Ill., 
August 16, 1940. 
 
               VU     I 
 
 
Dear Professor Leopold: 
 
           I have a letter from Dr. Sperry stating that he has been away
on 
 vacation, and that Professor Longenecker is still away on vacation. Dr.

 Sperry suggests that I work through Don Littrell, who is National Park Ser-

 vice Inspector for Illinois, and get authority for Sperry to visit our hold-

 ings from Inspeetor Tripp of Wisconsin. This I propose to do. 
 
           Dr. Sperry also suggests that be make an informal inspection next

Satarday, August 24th. I am writtng him to come ahead. 
 
           I enclose a copy of my letter to A. ;. Toasek, former State Forester

and now Assistant Director of the Department of Conservation. Tomy used to

work for us before he went with the National Park Service.     This Volo
bog is 
certainly a darbot And I am going to keep on pitching until we get it into

state owmership. 
 
          While at Havana last Saturday and Sunday, Lynn Hutehans and I spent

considerable time with Hawkins and with Bradley, the Custodian of the Chatauqua

Lae Reservation of the Biological Survey. We set up an association of the

bird banders in Illinois (vhldi I suggested be called the Bird Banders Bund;

its insignia to be a duck's penis rampant)* Beckart of Barrington was due
there 
on Monday, but I could not stay. We got the nesurients and sketches of the

dusk traps they are using down there and I have already started construction

on three of them to be placed in MoGinnes Slough at en early date, so that
we 
can catch the teal migration. We propose to weigh, age and sex all the birds

caught. Hawkins feels that we can make a considerable contribution by adding

this banding station. We will tranmit our records to him at Chatauqua weekly.

 
 
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Supt, of Maintenance. 
 
 
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