<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><DIV>Dear Birders, Conservationists, and Restoration Volunteers,</DIV>
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<DIV>Tune in to CBS Channel 2 at 10 p.m. tonight when Pam Zeckman's award winning Investigative Team will broadcast a story about the Montrose public sex activity and how it negatively impacts the 25-acre Montrose Point and Montrose Beach Dunes natural areas (the latter a state designated habitat on the Illinois Natural Areas Inventory). Some of birding's brightest stars will be interviewed and shed laser light on this chronic, offensive, and increasingly destructive type of public activity which worsened during the 2010 growing season when it spilled over from the upland habitat at Montrose Point (where it has traditionally been concentrated) into the most high quality, sensitive areas in the beach dunes, wiping out hundreds of the region's most sensitive plants, crushing resident bird
species' nests, sending dune fauna and visitors into a panic, and leaving a trail of disgusting detritus (used condoms, toilet paper, feces and other human waste) for birders, monitors, and restoration volunteers to walk and work in. </DIV>
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<DIV>Over the past decade, thousands of volunteer hours and hundreds of thousands of City and State dollars have been invested in the Montrose natural areas resulting in some of the highest quality bird and plant habitats in the Chicago region and one of the rarest wetland types in the world. Yet the public sex activity continues and is worse than ever. Years of meetings with public officials, promises and public declarations, fences, signs, etc., have done nothing to stem the tide which increasingly degrades the precious urban habitats and all who attempt to peacefully respect and enjoy them. Quoting a famous, now deceased, Montrose advocate many of you knew - it's time to SHOUT FROM THE ROOFTOPS. </DIV>
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<DIV>We are hopeful the CBS story will bring about the long-overdue effective action from public officials, especially the Chicago Park District, to finally put a stop to the Montrose problem. It has been done successfully at other natural areas.</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>Channel 2 will have teasers on the 5 and 7 p.m. news, and the full inveistagive story airs at 10 p.m. If you miss it the video will be posted on Channel 2's website tomorrow (Cbs2Chicago.com). </DIV>
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<DIV>Best regards,</DIV>
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<DIV>/Leslie Borns</DIV>
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