412 Inland Water Culture 



Exploitation is reaping where one has not sown. 

 Mere exploitation is but robbing the earth of her 

 treasures. Usually it enriches only the robber, and him 

 but indifferently. Getting something for nothing usu- 

 ally does not pay. It tends to rob posterity. 



Exploitation is the method of a bygone barbarous 

 age — an age when men, emerging from savagery, 

 acquire dominion over earth's creatures ere attaining 

 to a sense of responsibility for their welfare. 



Conservation is the method of the future. It means 

 greater dominion and completer use, but it also means 

 restraint and regard for the needs of future generations. 

 We are urging that in the use of our aquatic resources, 

 the wasteful methods of exploitation be abandoned; 

 and in two directions: 



i. We urge that water areas, adequate to our 

 future needs for study and experiment, be set apart 

 as reservations and forever kept free from the dep- 

 redations of the exploiter, and of the engineer. 



2. We urge that in those areas which are to be made 

 to contribute to human sustenance, the wasteful, 

 destructive and irresponsible practices of the hunter be 

 abandoned for the more fruitful and fore-looking 

 methods of the husbandman. 



