WORK IN A NATIONAL FOREST 

 Cutting Area, Showing Cordwood Cut from Tops and Limbs. Gila (S) National Forest 



power whose authority is as wide as 

 our country, and that is the Federal 

 Government. In the future, but small 

 place in the development and control of 

 water-power and waterways will be 

 given cither to the state or to private 

 corporations." 



F. H. Xewell Chief Engineer of the 

 Tinted States Reclamation Service, 

 states, "The matter of the development 

 of the \\e>t is not a state question. \Ye 

 must conserve fore-t- in Wyoming to 

 benefit the arid plains of Idaho. In 

 western Kansas there is the greatest in- 

 terest in irrigation, and although there 

 are no forest-, the rivers that come into 

 Kansas, a- the Arkansas, depend for the 

 continuity of their tV >w on the proper 

 treatment of the woodlands on the 

 mountains in the ceu'ral part of Colo- 

 rado," and so forth. " .d iminitum." 



The foregoing is Mi.":icient to prove 

 to the unbiased mind that a national 

 agency is absolutely e--e"iiial to carry 

 on the work of conservation in this 



country. If we agree on this, the ques- 

 tion naturally arises, what national 

 agency is better qualified to take up and 

 carry on the work than the National 

 ( iovernment ? 



In view of this. then. I advocate that 

 all national resource- owned by the 

 states as .such should be merged with 

 those owned by the I "nited Stales; that 

 the National Congress create a new de- 

 partment to l.e called the 1 >epartnient of 

 National Resources and Public \York-, 

 uho-e head -hall be a cabinet mini- 

 with the title of I>irect<>r of National 

 Resources and Public \York-; that in 

 this department shall be merged the 

 Forestry I'.ureau. Mines and Mineral- 

 Iiureau. Reclamation Service. Navi. 

 tion I'.ureau. < icolo-ical Survey, etc. 

 This department shall control the de- 

 velopment of all natural resources, such 

 a- land-, forests, minerals, water-po-,. 

 and the improvement of waterw.\ 

 shall also direct Mich work a- irriga- 

 tion, fore-tation. reclamation of swamp 



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