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CONSERVATION 



the refreshments. Now, it seems to me rhem and stopping the waste. But, 

 that if we want to protect that grove with our characteristic Americanism, 

 from the sawmill concern and save it when we have taken a single step in ad- 

 for a city park, it's time for us to do vance, we stop and look around, calling 

 something. What we want, it seems to the rest of the world to see what 

 to me, is more protection, and not so we have done. 



darn much ice cream." The fact of the matter is, the rest of 



The conclusion of that speech was the world is doing exactly the same 



thing, except that it isn't call- 

 ing upon all creation to take 

 notice. For years the countries 

 of Europe have been doing 

 what we are just beginning to 

 do ; Germany and France, It- 

 aly, Austria, Hungary, Swit- 

 zerland, and even, within re- 

 cent years, Spain — to say noth- 

 ing whatever of England — 

 have taken steps to conserve 

 forests, to utilize waters, to 

 care for soils ; in a word, to 

 take care of and render useful 

 to the highest degree every re- 

 source of nature. 



The worn-out, denuded and 

 eroded lands of China, too, 

 know to-day a small measure 

 of conservation work, and Jap- 

 an, most aggressive of Orien- 

 tal lands, is putting into effect 

 lost ; nobody ever did know what the what are, perhaps, the most rigorous 

 rest of it was. But the members of the protective laws, as regards timbers and 

 club got to work, and the grove was forests, as well as other natural re- 

 secured for a park. To-day it is one sources, of any yet enacted by any 

 of the most beautiful small "breathing nation. 



spaces" in the whole middle West. In our own hemisphere we are not 



Does any one, anywhere, see the alone in the work of conservation. Can- 



Natiooal Forest Use. Cluff Bros.' Angora Goats, on Range in Mt Graham 

 National Forest, Arizona 



application 



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ada's laws — forestry, mining, etc. 

 are well known ; and Mexico, too, is 

 undertaking on rather an extensive 

 scale the work of caring for her natural 

 resources. The Central American 

 countries are making halting steps 

 along the same lines, while in South 

 America practically every one of the 

 republics has written into its statute 

 books laws having to do with the con- 

 servation and preservation of some or 



Gjnservation, a World'-movement 



HERE in the United States we see 

 only one angle of the conservation 

 movement. We have heard of the con- 

 dition of our own natural resources, 



and we know something about what all of its natural resources. As long 

 the balance-sheet shows. We know — ago as 1880, Argentina passed a law to 

 but are far from realizing — that in the the effect that no trees should be cut 

 very nature of things these resources and no bark removed without a con- 

 are nearing exhaustion, and we are cession properly obtained from the 

 taking some feeble, tentative steps Minister of the Interior, and then only 

 toward more scientifically utilizing subject to rather stringent regulations. 



