In addition, the Society successfully influenced government to create 
     
     the Maurice G. Street Sanctuary near Nipawin, the Wild Cat Hill Wilder— 
     
     ness Area of the Pasquia Hills and a protection area consisting of two 
     
     sections at the bottom end of Big Gully Creek where it joins the North 
     
     Saskatchewan. It also requested and obtained formal national and 
     
     international recognition for the Bernard DeBries herbarium at Fort 
     
     Qu'Appelle. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Society members conduct annual province-wide winter bird counts on 
     
     Boxing Day and a spring bird migration count on the long weekend in 
     
     each May. They publish a quarterly magazine called "Blue Jay" and have 
     
     so far published six books on Saskatchewan mammals and birds by 
     
     Saskatchewan authors. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Society's overriding objective is to preserve and maintain suitable 
     
     self-sustaining ecological habitats for all living creatures, reversing 
     
     the trend toward alteration of the environment for exclusively human 
     
     priorities. 
     
    
   
   
    
     (from Environment Saskatchewan Newsletter, Winter, 1976)