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listic tendencies so fully developed by the Roosevelt 

 administration the federal government having enter- 

 ed upon extensive plans of reclaiming lands by irri- 

 gation, and preparing to develop water powers, and 

 inland waterways, -that the time seemed ripe to 

 bring all these conservative forces into unity. 



The President called together in conference the 

 governors of all the States with their advisers, to- 

 gether with the presidents of the various national 

 societies interested, and others, to discuss the broad 

 question of the conservation of natural resources. 



As a consequence national and State Conservation 

 Associations and Commissions were formed in all 

 parts of the Union, and a new era of active interest 

 in economic development seems to have arrived. 



4. Education and Literature. 



The primary education of the people at large and 

 of their governments in particular, the propaganda 

 for the economic reform contemplated by the forestry 

 movement, was carried on, as stated, by the federal 

 Division of Forestry and especially by the forestry 

 associations, which sprang up in all parts of the country, 

 by means of their annual and special meetings, aided 

 by the general press and sometimes by special pub- 

 lications. 



The first Journal of Forestry, a monthly publication, 

 ventured into the world as a private enterprise, edited 

 by Dr. Hough, soon after the Forestry Congress in 

 Cincinnati, but it survived just one year, vanishing 

 for lack of readers. This was followed by irregularly 

 appearing Forestry Bulletins, of 'which the writer 



