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Maine and Lodge of Massachusetts are among the 

 many who markedly showed at one time or another 

 sympathy with conservation's enemies. In the 

 House, the names of Representatives Mondell of 

 Wyoming, Wilson of Idaho, Floyd of Arkansas, 

 Booker and Clark of Missouri, Bennett and Fitz- 

 gerald of New York, Hamilton of Michigan, and 

 Haugen of Iowa appear as opponents of forest con- 

 servation, or as unfailing critics of the Forest Ser- 

 vice, or as both. 



It will be seen that opposition was by no means 

 confined to the West. Nor was the advocacy of for- 

 est conservation confined to the East. The names of 

 Senators Beveridge of Indiana, Platt of Connecti- 

 cut, Nelson of Minnesota, Dolliver of Iowa, New- 

 lands of Nevada, Spooner of Wisconsin, Warren 

 of Wyoming and Hansbrough of North Dakota, 

 and of Representatives Lacey of Iowa, Rawling of 

 Utah and many others in the House appear fre- 

 quently in the records of the often heated debates of 

 the period, ranged on the side of national interest. 

 In spite of the claims loudly made then and since, 

 forest conservation was not and is not a sectional 

 but a national question, and then as now had its 

 earnest advocates in all the states. 



The extension of the National Forests to the 

 East marks another great stride toward forest re- 

 cuperation. This was accomplished by the passage 

 of the Weeks Bill on February n, 1911, appropri- 

 ating two million dollars a year until 1915 inclusive 



