live would hardly desire for the day to dawn when we should see 

 few of these musical bouquets although that very thing has come to 

 pass in the case of certain birds, notably the wild pigeon. 



M. L. BRITTAIN. 



The Governor of Oregon. 



' ' The conservation of the water supply is absolutely dependent upon 

 the preservation of the upland forests. Opposition to the policy comes 

 not from those interested in the development of the country and the 

 perpetuation of our institution, but from the predatory classes, who 

 care for naught but temporary gain." 



CHAMBERLAIN. 



The Governor of Idaho. 



' ' We have built here a great nation, without a thought of tomorrow. 

 We will grow still greater, even if we follow the same old methods that 

 we have followed in the past. But we can not reach our full share of 

 greatness as a nation unless, before it is too late, we throw safeguards 

 around those resources that have made us the mightiest nation on the 

 earth, so that they can be preserved and protected, that they may be 

 developed to the greatest extent for the benefit of this and future 

 generations. ' ' 



GOODING. 



CURRENT LITERATURE 



The following longer selections from magazines, addresses, news- 

 paper articles, will give more complete and well rounded views of the 

 conservation idea as a whole. Why should not this collection be just 

 the thing for a reading circle or an improvement club to use? It is 

 up to date, interesting, and vital to our State and to our Nation. 



Is it not strange that our schools, preparing for citizenship, do not 

 study this Conservation of Natural Resources, so vital to every one 

 of us, so necessary to the very existence of the nation ? Our boys and 

 girls spend hours and days and weeks in studying intently the virtues 

 and defects of the Articles of Confederation, dead a hundred years! 

 But they can not discover in their schools that men are throwing 

 away and giving away the land and the water upon which the real 

 life of the nation is builded. They toil at length over the animosities 

 of the Civil War, which were better forgotten ; but they do not learn 

 that their birthrights of soil are being swept down the rivers and out 

 to the sea and that their birthrights of water-power are being seized 

 by those who will become their masters and their rulers of the future. 



Are not these matters worthy of consideration in our schools and 

 by our teachers? Do not the teachers owe a duty to the coming 

 generation to educate them to the dangers of ' * soil robbing, ' ' of forest 

 fire devastation, of wasteful methods of logging and turpentining, 

 of destroying the cover of vegetation on steep slopes, of permitting 

 individuals to gain absolute control of natural stores of coal and 

 minerals the supply of which is so very limited? This subject de- 

 mands earnest thought. Have you thought of it? 



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