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This work must be carried forward in the future. Co-operation and team play are necessary from everyone in order successfully to complete the tremendous task. As in all other fields, education holds a prominent position. Colleges and universities all over the country offer courses in agriculture and forestry. In the grade schools, clubs and organizations foster a sympathetic outlook toward nature in eager young minds. The government extends aid and advice to all who need or desire it. Colleges are constantly seeking to improve and increase farm production. It must be remembered that the United States is a government of the people, and this government is most effective when the people get behind it and give their support. That puts it directly up to us. We must do our part to support conservation. Theodore Roosevelt once said, When the soil is gone, man must go, and the process doesn ' t take long. It ' s up to us to see that the nation we give to posterity is not scarred and blackened but green and beautiful. In this time of national emergency, it is vital that our resources be conserved, so that we may help to strengthen the organized might of America in the critical years ahead. It ' s up to us. □ 16 n
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ing prevailed, large tracts of fine timber were destroyed. The private lumber concerns would mine a forest; that is, cut all the oldest trees, destroy the young- er trees, and leave the forest buried beneath the slash. Fire then followed in the wake, not only burning the trees, but also ruining the rich top soil, preventing or retarding future growth. The forests play an important part in our economic, industrial and social life. Economically, they give several million dollars income to the government each year; industrially, lumbering and its many by-products constitue an impor- each year; industrilly, lumbering and its many by-products contitute an impor- some of the most picturesque and magnificent splendors in the world as well as providing excellent vacation opportunities. When the forests are despoiled by in- rivers, overflows and erodes the land, and forces the farmers out. When the slopes are verdant and dense, the trees slow up the drainage. The roots hold the water, allowing it to seep into the rivers slowly and steadily throughout the summer. Floods are prevented and droughts are minimized. When a mountain slope is burned over, it exposes the loose soil to the driving rains and powerful winds. Rains wash the soil down the slopes and into the rivers, which it then chokes up. Nothing now checks the water; so it floods the rivers, overflows and erodes the land, and forces the farmers out. When the slopes are verdant and dense, the trees slow up the drainage. The roots hold the water, allowing it to seep into the rivers slowly and steadily throughout the summer. Floods are prevented and droughts are minimized. Our nation first became cognizant of the extravagant waste when Theodore Roosevelt was elected President. Roosevelt established the United States Forestry service, and placed the capable Gifford Pinchot in charge of it. The Reclamation Act was passed, which provided irrigation for the Western states. More land was taken from private use and made into national parks. Minerals and water power were placed under government control. To Roosevelt we owe a vote of thanks, for it was he more than anyone else who revealed the waste to us and instructed us in how to cure and prevent it. Since then the government has taken great strides in conservation. Boulder Dam on the Colorado River, Shoshone Dam in Wyoming, Elephant Butte Dam in Montana are monuments of progress in irrigation projects. Crater Lake National Park in Oregon, Yellowstone National Park in three states, Sequoia National Park in California, all these and many more are spots of indescribable beauty, preserved for posterity. Lumbering, mining, and the use of water re- sources are carefully supervised by the Forestry Service. To-day we have the Soil Conservation Service, and the Civilian Conservation Corps. Both have done magnificent work in saving devastated farm lands and forest areas. The S. C. C. is waging an unceasing battle against dust and drought. Irri- gation projects are being carried forward everywhere. Water eroded gullies and plains are dammed to hold water, and tough young trees planted over them. Soon erosion is stopped and another victory is chalked up. In the forests, work of a similar nature is being successfully carried out. Burned over areas are cleaned up and strong young trees are planted to hold the soil. Soon a fine stand of timber has grown up. Clean broad roads are being construct- ed to make access into the woods easier for sightseers, campers and fire fighters. A great deal of work has been done in cleaning up slash and left over lumber cuttings. So fast are young seedlings being used for replacing that there is a great shortage, notwithstanding the millions of them grown in nurseries.
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