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Title: Conservation Reader

Author: Harold W. Fairbanks

Release Date: October 16, 2008 [EBook #26935]

Language: English

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[Illustration: _Nat'l Ass'n Audubon Societies_
The passenger pigeon, an extinct species.]

CONSERVATION SERIES

CONSERVATION READER

BY

HAROLD W. FAIRBANKS

AUTHOR OF "HOME GEOGRAPHY, STORIES OF OUR
MOTHER EARTH," "ROCKS AND MINERALS,"
"THE WESTERN UNITED STATES,"
"PRACTICAL PHYSIOGRAPHY,"
"GEOGRAPHY OF CALIFORNIA,"
ETC.

ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS AND
WITH REPRODUCTIONS OF PAINTINGS
IN COLOR

YONKERS-ON-HUDSON, NEW YORK

WORLD BOOK COMPANY

1920

WORLD BOOK COMPANY

THE HOUSE OF APPLIED KNOWLEDGE

Established, 1905, by Caspar W. Hodgson

YONKERS-ON-HUDSON, NEW YORK

2126 PRAIRIE AVENUE, CHICAGO

The need for education in the principles of conservation is imperative.
As Henry Fairfield Osborn states the matter, "We are yet far from the
point where the momentum of conservation is strong enough to arrest and
roll back the tide of destruction." The movement for the preservation of
natural resources can succeed only with the establishment of an
enlightened public sentiment on the subject. To create and maintain such
a sentiment is the proper work of the schools. In making this
_Conservation Reader_ available for school use, author and publishers
have had in mind the great and lasting service that such a text might
render. The publishers believe that this little volume and others
forthcoming in the Conservation Series will rank high among "Books That
Apply the World's Knowledge to the World's Needs"

Copyright, 1920, by World Book Company
Copyright in Great Britain
_All rights reserved_

INTRODUCTION

The wave of enthusiasm for the conservation of our national resources
must reach the children or it will expend much of its force uselessly.

It