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purpose and the encouragement thereof by remission of taxes, 

 Government co-operation, or other suitable means. 



Game Protection. 

 "We recognize that game preservation and the protection 

 of bird Hfe are intimately associated with the conservation of 

 natural resources. We therefore favor game protection under 

 regulation, the creation of extensive game preserves, and special 

 protection for such birds as are useful to agriculture. 



Conservation Commissions. 



"The action of the President of the United States in calling 

 this first conference to consider the conservation of the natural 

 resources of North America was in the highest degree opportune, 

 and the proceedings which have followed, and the information 

 mutually communicated by the representatives assembled, have, 

 we believe, been conducive to the best interests of the countries 

 participating. To derive the greatest possible benefit from the 

 work which has already been done, and to provide proper and 

 effective machinery for future work, there should be established 

 in each country a permanent Conservation Commission. 



Exchange of Information. 



"When such conservation commissions have been estab- 

 lished, a system of inter-communication should be inaugurated, 

 whereby, at stated intervals, all discoveries, inventions, pro- 

 cesses, inventories of natural resources, information of a new 

 and specially important character, and seeds, seedlings, new or 

 improved varieties, and other productions which are of value 

 in conserving or improving any natural resource, shall be trans- 

 mitted by each commission to all of the others, to the end that 

 they may be adopted and utilized as widely as possible. 



World-Wide Conservation. 



"The conference of delegates, representatives of the United 

 States, Mexico, Canada and Newfoundland, having exchanged 

 views and considered the information supplied from the re- 

 spective countries, is convinced of the importance of the move- 

 ment for the conservation of natural resources on the Continent 

 of North America, and believes that it is of such a nature and of 

 such general importance that it should become world-wide in 

 its scope, and therefore suggests to the President of the United 

 States of America that all nations should be invited to join 

 together in conference on the subject of world resources and 

 their inventory, conservation and wise utilization." 



Signed: Gifford Pinchot, Sydney Fisher, Clifford Sifton. 

 Robert Bacon, Romulo Escobar, Migual A. de Quevedo, Henri 

 S. Beland, James Rudolph Garfield, Carlos Sellerier. E. H. 

 Outerbridge. 



