6oo AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Safeguards for Conservation of Life 



Realizing the waste of life in transportation and mining- operations, we 

 recommend legislation increasing the use of proper safeguards for the conserva- 

 tion of life. Arid we also recommend that in order to make better provisions for 

 procuring the health of the nation a department of public health be established 

 by the national government. 



We recommend the adequate maintenance of a national conservation com- 

 mission to investigate the natural resources of the country and co-operate with 

 the work of the state conservation commissions ; and we urge the legal estab- 

 lishment and maintenance of conservation commissions or corresponding agencies 

 on the part of all states of the Union. 



Nothing in these resolutions is to be construed as questioning the rights of 

 the states or the people of the United States guaranteed under the federal Con- 

 stitution. 



Acknowledge Hospitality of City and State 



Deeply impressed by the sustained interest and unsurpassed enthusiasm dis- 

 played throughout this second National Conservation congress, and fully realiz- 

 ing that its success has been due to the warm hospitality of the state and city and 

 the able preliminary arrangements, we are moved to acknowledge our profound 

 obligation to 



His Excellency Adolph O. Eberhart, both as Governor of the state and as 

 one of the active workers throughout the preliminary arrangements, as well as 

 during the congress ; 



To Hon. Herbert P. Keller, Mayor of the City of St. Paul; 



To Paul Doty, Chairman of the Local Board of Managers ; 



To J. H. Beek, Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements; 



To citizens of the state and city, all and several ; and especially to the ladies 

 of the Twin Cities, whose hospitality and unremitting interest in the congress 

 have been unbounded. 



We feel a special debt to the Publicity Bureau of St. Paul for its action in 

 assuming the responsibility for and meeting out of its own funds the cost of 

 the advance publicity, given in thousands of newspapers, to this congress, and 

 to Mr. Curtis L. Mosher, manager of that bureau; and we heartily appreciate 

 the unusual and most successful efforts of the press to promote the interests of 

 the congress and carry the results of its deliberations to every part of the land. 



