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Fig. 17. The place to teach conservation is out-of-doors. Coopera- 

 tive work in Yogemite is building a better sentiment favoring 

 conservation. Photograph by J. Lloyd. 



Scliools'' is entirely exhausted. Where can the commission's educa- 

 tional campaign be made more effective than in the schools of the state ? 

 Were we in a position to furnish suitable helps to teachers, much could 

 be accomplished. Stress is here laid upon the urcrent necessity of 

 supplying this great need in the immediate future. In the same connec- 

 tion should be mentioned the opportunity afforded through boy scout 

 organizations. If leaflets or bulletins, suitable for use by scouts, were 

 available, suitable training relative to the conserv^ation of wild life 

 would be included in the educational program of each scout troop. A 

 special fund to cover the preparation and publication of such leaflets 

 and bulletins is most iiiiportaiil. 



The department again cooperated with tlie State Department of 

 Education in the preparation of a bird and Arbor Day manual. A great 

 deal of material was furnished but funds not being available for the 

 publication of the manual, part of the material was utilized in ;i special 

 number of the "Western Journal of Education." 



