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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