paid eagles along the Kaw River, including
notes of where they were spotted and their ac-
tivities while Bee was watching them. .

It is one of his desires to have the eight-mile
stretch along the river dewn from Lecompton
declared a bald eagle refuge and made ‘“‘ab-
solutely inviolate to man’s trespass.”

He said there is good evidence that bald
eagles once nested in the Lecompton area and
if the area were preserved, Bee believes, the
bald eagles might once again return in large
numbers to the area. :

It is also one of his desires to see a primitive
trail 40 miles leng .preserved along the
Wakarusa River. Bee’s idea would be to allow
no more than two people to traverse the trail
each day and access would be allowed only by
reservation. This would allow the land to
return to the state it was in before white man
interfered with the environment.

The garage of Bee’s home is being made in-
to a mini-museum of sorts, one that would
feature his own collections of bats, ar-
rowheads and other Indian artifacts, copies of
petroglyphs, which are drawings carved into
rock by ancient civilizations, bones and
books, among countless other things that the
naturalist has deemed worthwhile.

BEE IS extremely proud of a copy of
dgeway’s Color Key which has never been
. The book was used to identify the colors
f birds and Bee said that of the 300 copies
published, only his remains unused and the
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Bee, who spends time indoors playing
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cerned now with what he calls the “super
organism,” or the delicate balance of ail
things in nature, animate and inanimate.

For instance, he said; if you remove the
heart from the human body, the entire body is
affected and willdie. . .

‘It’s that same way in the’ super
organism,” he said. “For instance, if you
remove the plants from the plant/animal
equillibrium, you’re going to have death in the
community.”

He points out the hunting of mountain lions

- in the Grand Canyon. So extensive were the

lions hunted and destroyed, that the deer
population, which was hunted by the lions,
outgrew its ecosystem and ‘‘they died by the
thousands.” .

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ALTHOUGH HE retired two years ago
observations of nature have not. He an
wife Annette plan a trip scon to islands off the
Alaskan shore. There he will study the
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Bee has crossed the globe to observe
nature, but there is still much that excites him
in the Lawrence area. He has substituted the

ivers of Kansas for the mountains of his
youth. He said he has ‘“‘worn out” the local

    

 

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