Mr. Chester W. Lyman, of New York City 

 Director of the American Forestry Association 



CONSERVATION is an important factor in ''preparedness." When the supreme test of war comes 

 it is vital for a nation to have natural resources available as well as men and munitions. 

 Conservation ensures the perpetuation of ths industries dependent upon natural resources, and 

 when one nation is pitted against another in a life and death struggle industrial supremacy may determine 

 the result. So the present war should give us a conception of conservation vastly more impressive than 

 any considerations of sectional, temporary or mercenary advantage. We must have natural resources in 

 abundance back of our fleets and forts for adequate defense of the nation's life, and conservation is the 

 constructive principle essential to this end. Chester W. Lyman. 



