EDITORIAL 



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resources arose partly from the recent 

 forestry movement, partly from the still 

 more recent waterway movement. 



"The germ of the idea took form in 

 an address by President Roosevelt be- 

 fore the Society of American Foresters 

 (of which he was and is an associate 

 member), March 26, 1903." 



Following the above are several quo- 

 tations from important utterances of 

 President Roosevelt. 



As has already been pointed out in 

 these columns, the conservation move- 

 ment has now taken a wide sweep, and 

 when representatives of the different 

 nations of the world shall meet at The 

 Hague next September, as a result of 

 President Roosevelt's initiative at the 

 North American Conservation Confer- 

 ence held in Washington last February, 

 this effort will have attained a world- 

 scope. 



To the little band of forestry pioneers 

 who, in 1882, met in Cincinnati and or- 

 ganized the American Forestry Associ- 

 ation, there is cause for profound con- 

 gratulation as they behold the mighty 

 tree now growing from the little seed 

 then and there planted. Then, they 

 were but blazers of a trail through a 

 wilderness, leaders of an apparently for- 

 lorn hope, "hobby-riders," "alarmists," 

 "cranks." Now, they have in their com- 

 pany ofificial representatives from all 

 the leading nations of the world. With 

 another pioneer on a notable occasion 

 they might with propriety exclaim, 

 "What hath God wrought !" 



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Let Us Hear from the Schools 



A HOPEFUL aspect of the conser- 

 vation movement is the develop- 

 ment of the forestry schools. Of these 

 a considerable number already exists. 

 This number is increasing and the qual- 

 ity of the schools is improving. They 

 are leavening public sentiment and pre- 

 paring young men for various aspects 

 of forest work. 



Conservation desires to keep in 

 touch with these institutions. It believes 

 that a close connection between the 

 schools and the magazine will be good 



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for both and for the movement. It de- 

 sires news notes from the schools re- 

 garding their work, plans and prospects, 

 and articles from their professors. All 

 these schools are now looking forward 

 toward the beginning of the coming 

 year. Conservation suggests that it 

 might be helpful to them to keep their 

 work before its readers. 



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A Legislative News Bureau for Conservation 



IT IS the desire of Conservation to 

 publish a record, as full as possible, 

 of all national and state legislation on 

 forestry and conservation matters. The 

 endeavor will be made to treat with par- 

 ticular fullness such measures as may 

 be introduced into the National Con- 

 gress, to publish roll-calls on all impor- 

 tant measures, and place the records of 

 members directly before the country. 

 It is highly desirable, furthermore, that 

 a similar record may be kept of legis- 

 lative procedure in the several states. 

 That this effort may prove effective, it 

 is essential that friends of the conserva- 

 tion movement shall furnish this maga- 

 zine each month with the information 

 necessary. In numerous instances 

 friends reside in state capitals ; in cases, 

 they are themselves members of state 

 legislatures. They are thus in peculiarly 

 favorable positions to aid this publica- 

 tion in making a success of the proposed 

 news bureau. With their aid it can be- 

 come a highly important factor in the 

 promotion of legislation necessary for 

 the conservation of the resources of the 

 states and Nation. Conservation, 

 therefore, calls for volunteers in every 

 state in the Union to supply the neces- 

 sary data. Whether legislatures be or 

 be not now in session, prompt, affirma- 

 tive replies will be greatly appreciated, 

 that records may be begun and this of- 

 fice may know to whom to looV for the 

 necessary information. 



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The Point of View 



THIS office has received an illustrated 

 clipping describing an endless-chaln 

 crosscut saw. The clipping says : "The 



