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nothing because it meant everything. But what 

 could one do? There was no other inclusive term. 

 To the sportsman it meant shooting; to the nature 

 student it meant conserving wild areas and preserv- 

 ing species ; to the park enthusiast it meant reserva- 

 tions; to the motorist it meant touring; to the so- 

 cial worker it meant factory holidays in the open, 

 children's playgrounds, and a higher type of men 

 and women; to the angler it meant fishing and propa- 

 gating game fish; to the public minded, it meant na- 

 tional health and patriotism; to many others it 

 meant any kind of out-door pleasuring from tennis 

 at the club to scaling the High Sierra. 



The triumph of the Conference was that, in 

 three days, it found what appeared then to be a com- 

 mon meeting ground for all, formulated a practica- 

 ble working platform, and developed a permanent 

 organization with the very practical purpose of de- 

 termining by survey a national plan for future out- 

 door development of every unindustrial kind. It was 

 a competent convention. It gathered scores of de- 

 tached popular movements into a single movement 

 which would put the power of all behind each. And 

 it established a Council which, getting promptly to 

 work, assigned preliminary fact-gathering to or- 

 ganizations able to produce results, and establish re- 

 lations with a committee which the President had 

 appointed from his Cabinet to represent the national 

 administration. 



Fast work, this culminating organization of 



