.V College President. 



''The uTeatest re-Milts of ili<- administration of President Roosevelt 

 have l)een twofold: the awakening of tlie civic conscience in our coun- 

 1 rv. ;IIM! the i IK i\'ei i n 'i 1 1 towards ihc conservat ion <t our natural re- 

 sources. The-.c 1 wo results are closely connected. ;iiitl e;ich movement 

 si ivnu'l hens i he other. There is no\\' nothing in American politics of 

 uTeater [>r;iciic;il importance than tlie preservation of our national 

 domain, with all that it contains, and all this developed to the highest 

 point of efficiency . 



()f i hcM- elements, that o!' 1'oi'esl preservation now stands first in 

 prosing im poll ance and deserves the constant support of all good 

 men. Very impoi'tant is also the preservation of the birds, to which 

 the Andnhon societies are dedicated. The saving of the fisheries is 

 likewise a matter of laru'e moment to the intnre. and in this ! am 

 Lrivinir personally all the help I can. 



As for the waters, soils and all such matters, our many centers of 

 investigation and instruction in agriculture are giving splendid pledges 

 for the future.' 



DAVID STARR JORDAN. 



Another Ivv-President of tlie I nited States. 



" In ntilixing and conserving the natural resources of the nation the 

 one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight. '. n- 

 foi't unately. foresight is not usually characteristic of a young and 

 vigorous people, and it is obviously not a marked characteristic of 

 us in the I'niled States. Yet assuredly it should he the growing 

 nation with a future which takes the long look ahead; and no other 

 nation is LI- rowing so rapidly as ours or has a fut lire so full of promise. 

 No oilier nation enjoys so wonderful a measure of present prosperity 

 which can of riu'ht he treated as an earnest of future success, and in 

 no other are the rewards of foresight so great, so certain, and so easily 

 foretold. Yet hitherto as a nalien we have tended to live with an 

 eye single to the present, and have permitted the reckless waste and 

 destruction of much of our natural wealth. 



The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use 

 constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every 

 other problem of our national life. 1 nless we maintain an adequate 

 material basis for our civilization, we can not maintain the institutions 

 in which we take so great and just a pride; and to waste and destroy 

 our natural resources means to undermine this material basis. 



TllKnPoRK lionSKVKI/i'. 

 Still Another 1 ainous Ivv-Presidenl. 



'Those most proudly happy in their sanguine Americanism, and 

 mo.sl confident of our ability lo accomplish all things, must confess 

 lh;il our national life has been habitually beset with careless waste- 

 fulness, and that a palpable manifestation of this wastefulness is seen 

 in th destruction of free growth and the denudation of watersheds on 

 our \\ extern lands. Laws passed \\ilh the professed intent ol pro- 

 1eciin<_!' our forests have been so amiably construed as to admit of 

 easy invasion; and their execution has loo often been lax and per- 



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