CARL JOHNSON PRESIDENT SEZ 



An EdIc (?) On Environment 



(With apologies to H. W. Longfellow) 



By the shores of I shy Swishey, 

 By the stinking Big Sea Water, 

 Stood the hovel of Nokomis, 

 Daughter of an Age, Nokomis, 

 And her grandson Hiawatha. 

 Once behind it rose the forest, 

 Rose the green majestic forest. 

 Rose the firs v/ith cones upon them. 

 Bright before it beat the water, 

 Beat the clear and sunny water. 

 Beat the shining Big Sea Water. 

 Naught remains but heaps of garbage. 

 Old and rusty auto bodies. 

 Heaps of filth and heaps of refuse. 

 Breeders of Disease and Squalor I 



Ah I My son I What can I leave thee? 

 Naught but ruin and desolation? 

 Naught of old days gone before thee? 

 Gi tehee Manitou I implore thee 

 Help us - ere we fade and perish 

 Help our great and glorious Nation 

 Help us - ere we fade and perishi 

 Help our youth, and help our aged 

 Help us all regain our Hcritagel 



Aieel My Son what do I vision? 

 Gleaming thru the air pollutioni 

 Tis not Wah-Wah-Tay-Sy the firefly I 

 Tis the light of Strength and Reason, 

 Tis the light of people of stature. 

 People of grim determination. 

 People with soul and strength of purpose! 

 State and county. City-planners, 

 Soil and water district supervisors, 

 Foresters, and Fish and Game men, 



Those who plan our water resources. 

 State and Federal and Grass Roots people. 

 Wildlife men and all Conservationists. 

 People such as you and I, 

 All will help to solve our Problemsl 



Plant the grass to stop erosion. 

 Plant the trees to aid the grasses 

 In their ever-lasting battlel 

 Build the dams to check the rivers. 

 Check the wild and rushing waters. 

 Tame them, store them, send them flowing 

 gently downward. 

 To the broad and fertile valleys. 

 As once did the little beaver. 

 In the days long gone before us! 



Men like these will set the pattern. 



Once again will rise the forest. 



Rise the green majestic forest. 



Rise the firs with cones upon them. 



Once again will grow the grasses. 



Lush and green and tender grasses. 



Here will graze the deer and cattle 



In the grand majestic forest, 



Once the great widespread grassland. 



Once again the birds a-nesting. 



Once again the geese a-honking 



Once again the ducks a-f lying. 



In their v's as once we knew it! ' 



Timber for our many houses. 

 Food and Fiber for our People! 

 Gone will be the stinking water. 

 Naught but clear and sunny water. 

 Gone will be the smog and hazes. 

 Naught but clear and bright horizons, 

 Naught but the Great and Blue Sky Country, 

 Land of Mighty Shining Mountains, 

 Land of broad and ferti le val leys. 

 Land of grand atij glorious farmlands. 

 Clean and wholesome, thriving cities! 

 Yes, the sun will shine more brightly. 

 Stars will twinkle in the Heavens 

 In the clean and shining Heavens! 

 Sleep my son, our fears shall vanish! 

 It is Good! Uah! I have spoken! 



MEETING DATES TO REMEMBER 



4-H Conservation Camp-Havre-July 5-10 

 Bankers Range School -Grass Range-July 8-9 

 NACD District Out look-Bi I I i ngs'-Ju ly 15-16 

 Montana Chapter, SCSA-Missouia-July 17 

 MASWCO Area Meetings-October 4-10 

 Mont, Water Devel, Assoc, -Helena-Oct. 22-23 

 MASWCD Annual feet, -Great Falls-Nov. 4-6 



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