President Roosevelt's Acknowledgments 

 to Mr, Gifford Pinchot 



"We have been doing every "All these various uses of 



thing in our power to prevent our natural resources are so 



fraud upon the public land. . , , closely connected that they 



So much for what we are should be coordinated, and 



trying to do in utilizing our should be treated as part of 



public lands for the public; in one coherent plan and not 



securing the use of the water, in haphazard and piecemeal 



the forage, the coal, and the fashion. It is largely because 



timber for the public. In all of this that I appointed the 



four movements my chief Waterways Commission last 



adviser, and the man first to year. , . . The reason this 



suggest to me the courses meeting takes place is because 



which have actually proved we had that Waterways 



so beneficial, was Mr. Gifford Commission last year. , , , 



Pinchot, the Chief of the Na' Especial credit is due to the 



tional Forest Service. Mr. initiative, the energy, the de' 



Pinchot also suggested to me votion to duty, and the far' 



a movement supplementary sightedness of Gifford Pin' 



to all of these movements; chot (Great Applause), to 



one which will itself lead the whom we owe so much of 



way in the general move' the progress we have already 



ment which he represents made in handling this mat' 



and with which he is actively ter of the coordination and 



identified, for the conserva' conservation of natural re' 



tion of all our natural re' sources. If it had not been 



sources, This was the ap' for him, this Convention 



pointment of the Inland neither would nor could 



Waterways Commission." have been called."- -President 



Address of President Roose' Roosevelt in his opening ad' 



velt before the National Edi' dress to the Conference of 



torial Association at James' the Governors of the United 



town, Va,, June 10, 1907, at States, White House, May 13, 



2 p, m. 1908. 



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