Pamphlets on Conservation of Natural Resources, Volume 19U.S. Government Printing Office, 1959 - Conservation of natural resources |
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... cooperate fully with the others . While reasonable rivalry is not unhealthy , all im- partial experts have urged fundamental changes because the pres- ent arrangements are unsound , uneconomic and undesirable . In some among the forty ...
... cooperate fully with the others . While reasonable rivalry is not unhealthy , all im- partial experts have urged fundamental changes because the pres- ent arrangements are unsound , uneconomic and undesirable . In some among the forty ...
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... at a point where sound conservation requires that the Government adopt policies and practices that will induce private owners to observe defensible practices of management and harvesting . A cooperative 32 Je Must Overcome Our Shortages.
... at a point where sound conservation requires that the Government adopt policies and practices that will induce private owners to observe defensible practices of management and harvesting . A cooperative 32 Je Must Overcome Our Shortages.
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... cooperative sawmill and hauling operations be extended to meet more fully the needs of this situation . An overhauling of the tax system , forest insurance at reasonable rates and both capital and develop- ment loans by the Government ...
... cooperative sawmill and hauling operations be extended to meet more fully the needs of this situation . An overhauling of the tax system , forest insurance at reasonable rates and both capital and develop- ment loans by the Government ...
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... cooperation of the users of the forests , parks and monuments . While forest protection has made great progress recently on Federally operated forests and on the larger , better managed sustained - yield private holdings , much remains ...
... cooperation of the users of the forests , parks and monuments . While forest protection has made great progress recently on Federally operated forests and on the larger , better managed sustained - yield private holdings , much remains ...
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... Cooperation 131 Conservation Days and Observances 133 Conservation on Radio and Television 8. WHAT SCHOOLS ARE EMPHASIZING Using Resources Around Us .... 139 144 144 Identifying Problems of Supply 146 Understanding the Relationship of ...
... Cooperation 131 Conservation Days and Observances 133 Conservation on Radio and Television 8. WHAT SCHOOLS ARE EMPHASIZING Using Resources Around Us .... 139 144 144 Identifying Problems of Supply 146 Understanding the Relationship of ...
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Page 6 - I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges.
Page 226 - ... to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.
Page 46 - America shall fall, the subject for contemplative sorrow will be infinitely greater than crumbling brass and marble can inspire. It will not then be said, here stood a temple of vast antiquity; here rose a babel of invisible height; or there a palace of sumptuous extravagance; but here...
Page 46 - The great corporations are acting with foresight, singleness of purpose, and vigor to control the water powers of the country. They pay no attention to state boundaries and are not interested in the constitutional law affecting navigable streams except as it affords what has been aptly called a "twilight zone...
Page 100 - The application of common sense to common problems for the common good, under the guidance of the principles upon which this Republic was based, and by virtue of which it exists, spells perpetuity for the Nation, civil and industrial liberty for its citizens, and freedom of opportunity in the pursuit of happiness for the plain American, for whom this Nation was founded...
Page 46 - ... lofty pyramids, and walls and towers of the most costly workmanship. But when the Empire of America shall fall, the subject for contemplative sorrow will be infinitely greater than crumbling brass or marble can inspire.
Page 6 - A nation deprived of liberty may win it, a nation divided may reunite, but a nation whose natural resources are destroyed must inevitably pay the penalty of poverty, degradation, and decay.
Page 70 - ... about helping her father stop erosion on a vacant lot they owned. One boy built a small dam on a creek. Bill and his friends made some check dams when on a camping trip. The children, firsthand, found out many things about planting cover crops, strip cropping, contour plowing, terracing, shelterbelts for preventing wind erosion, and other ways of using and conserving the soil. They made posters showing what they had learned in their study of conservation. They made plans for future use of the...