NEWS AND NOTES 



Widening From every section of 

 Interest in the land comes indica- 

 Conservation tions Q f the ever-widen- 

 ing interest that is being taken, by peo- 

 ple in every walk of life, in the prob- 

 lem of conservation. Organizations of 

 all characters, associations of business 

 men, lumbermen, chambers of com- 

 merce, granges, federations of wom- 

 en's clubs and scores of other larger 

 or smaller associations of representa- 

 tive Americans, numbering in the ag- 

 gregate hundreds of thousands of 

 American men and women, have re - 

 cently passed resolutions endorsing 

 the conservation movement. FORES- 

 TRY AND IRRIGATION wishes it were 

 possible 'o print all the resolutions 

 along such lines that are received in 

 this office; but to do so would be to 

 take up the entire magazine and 

 crowd out all other matter. However, 

 we are printing herewith a few of the 

 resolutions recently received, and men- 

 tion of organizations that have en- 

 dorsed the work of the Government 

 along conservation lines. 



Upholding Following President 

 Roosevelt ' s invitation to 

 the State Governors to 

 meet at the White House, Mrs. Lydia 

 Adams-Williams, whose article on The 

 Waste of Natural Resources appears* 

 elsewhere in this issue, addressed the 

 District of Columbia Federation of 

 Women's Clubs ; and after her lec- 

 ture the Federation adopted resolu- 

 tions in support of the conservation 

 movement. This Federation, compris- 

 ing seventeen societies with 4,000 

 members, is the first among the 

 Women's Club organizations to take 

 action in this larger field. The resolu- 

 tions are here reproduced : 



Recognizing the incontrovertible fact, 

 which has been too long neglected, that 

 upon the fundamental principle of the 

 conservation and development of all 

 our natural resources, under the super- 

 vision of, and by the aid of the Fed- 



eral Government, depends the continu- 

 ance of our country's unequalled wealth, 

 prosperity, and phenomenal progress, 

 thus enabling us to advance the cause of 

 humanity and civilization the world over, 

 we heartily endorse and unreservedly 

 commend the policy of President Roose- 

 velt in his earnest efforts to preserve and 

 develop all our natural resources. 



To further augment the President's 

 wise and beneficent policy, in utilizing 

 our public lands and in securing the use 

 of the water, the forage, the coal, and the 

 timber for the public, we hereby pledge 

 ourselves, individually and collectively, to 

 assist by our pens and our influence, and 

 to promote by all honorable means with- 

 in our power, the branches of the United 

 States Government devoted to these sub- 

 jects, namely: . 



The United States Reclamation Ser- 

 vice in its worthy efforts to reclaim the 

 desert by irrigation and to build homes 

 upon the land. 



The Forest Service and the United 

 States Forester, Air. Gifford Pinchot, in 

 his commendable plan to use and save 

 the forests and to reforest the land, for 

 "without our forests there would be no 

 irrigation." 



The Geological Survey in its efforts 

 to utilize more economically the coal de- 

 posits which when once exhausted can 

 never be renewed. 



The Inland Waterways Commission 

 with its plans for a fourteen-foot channel 

 from the Gulf to the Great Lakes, thus 

 relieving the railway congestion and 

 opening new channels of trade and ex- 

 tending commerce in some forty of our 

 richest and most prosperous States, and 

 further preparing the way for our fullest 

 utilization of the incalculable benefits of 

 the Panama Canal. 



And to further aid the United States 

 Forester and the American Forestry 

 Association by urging Congress to ap- 

 propriate money for the purchase of the 

 Southern Appalachian and White Moun- 

 tain National Forests, that the numerous 

 factories, power plants and other manu- 

 facturing industries, also the homes of 

 hundreds of prosperous and contented 

 tillers of the soil, may be saved from 

 destruction by floods and droughts, of 

 which the lowest estimate of yearly loss 

 by flood alone is $100,000,000. 



And to aid the American Mining Con- 

 gress in its efforts to open to homes- 

 steads and agricultural uses the mineral 

 fuel lands, while still retaining their 

 ownership by the United States for the 

 benefit of the people. 



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