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Title: The Fight For Conservation

Author: Gifford Pinchot

Release Date: February 23, 2004 [EBook #11238]

Language: English

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THE FIGHT FOR CONSERVATION

By

GIFFORD PINCHOT

1910

CONTENTS

Introduction

I. Prosperity
II. Home-building for the Nation
III. Better Times on the Farm
IV. Principles of Conservation
V. Waterways
VI. Business
VII. The Moral Issue
VIII. Public Spirit
IX. The Children
X. An Equal Chance
XI. The New Patriotism
XII. The Present Battle
Index

INTRODUCTION

The following discussion of the conservation problem is not a systematic
treatise upon the subject. Some of the matter has been published
previously in magazines, and some is condensed and rearranged from
addresses made before conservation conventions and other organizations
within the past two years.

While not arranged chronologically, yet the articles here grouped may
serve to show the rapid, virile evolution of the campaign for
conservation of the nation's resources.

I am indebted to the courtesy of the editors of _The World's Work, The
Outlook_, and of _American Industries_ for the use of matter first
contributed to these magazines.

THE FIGHT FOR CONSERVATION

CHAPTER I

PROSPERITY

The most prosperous nation of to-day is the United States. Our
unexampled wealth and well-being are directly due to the superb natural
resources of our country, and to the use which has been made of them by
our citizens, both in the present and in the past. We are prosperous
because our forefathers bequeathed to us a land of marvellous resources
still unexhausted. Shall we conserve those resources, and in our turn
transmit them, still unexhausted, to our descendants? Unless we do,
those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery,
degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.
When the natural re