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Editorial 



Conservation and Nature-Study 



It is interesting to note the growing national necessity of the 

 proper teaching of Nature-Study to the youth of the land. Owing 

 to the efforts of Nature lovers and wise legislation, the United 

 States has become a shining example to the world in the setting 

 apart of great tracts of wild land for permanent parks. Not only 

 has the National Government established parks covering vast 

 areas but many of the states have done likewise. This great 

 movement has resulted in a pressure from above for Nature-Study. 

 The keeping wild and natural the thousands of acres of our beauti- 

 ful forests and lake regions, and the conservation of wild life there 

 will prove to be a futile effort if the people to whom the parks be- 

 long have no intelligent interest in them. 



How can the ignorant know the proper way to treat a wild park, 

 to say nothing of appreciating its true beauty! The general use 

 of the automobile, the rapidly growing habit of taking long trips 

 in autos with tents render the whole question a pressing one. 

 The Nature-Guide movement on the Pacific coast is one means of 

 teaching the proletariat as well as the patricians how to see what 

 is before their eyes and how to care for the preservation of wilder- 

 ness charms. The foresters employed by the Federal and State 

 Governments are doing a great work also, but unfortunately there 

 are not enough foresters to stand guard everywhere. 



The sure way to protect our great reservations is to train the 

 children in the public schools through Nature-Study to understand 

 and know the plants, trees, animals and birds that inhabit these 

 reservations and thus will they learn to respect their rights as 

 well as to understand what the rights are. It has taken Dr. Hom- 



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