Word: conservationism
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Last week two very different groups of people did some concentrated worrying about conservation. Colorado rangers of the U. S. Forest Service fought a strong push by Western sheep ranchers to graze their flocks without restriction on public lands. The sheep-men were lobbying hard and effectively in Congress. All...
This is probably the main conservation problem. As long as nobody bothers them, Congressmen will go right on supporting the sheep-owners' demands to chew the life from the grazing lands. As long as nobody bothers them Congress will go merrily on, allowing the nation's resources to float down...
Conservation directly affects the public. But Congress has been ducking action on numerous resource-saving plans for an inordinately long time. A little more active public pressure could do a lot of good.
Died. Frederic Collin Walcott, 80, onetime Republican Senator from Connecticut (1929-35); after long illness; in Stamford, Conn. A longtime friend of Herbert Hoover (he was Hoover's aide in the World War I European food relief program) and an ardent wildlife conservationist (he authored the federal duck stamp...
Two new men--Professors Gaus and Maass--have been added to the teachers in the American section. Both have made good first- and second-year impressions, and are teaching relatively new stuff: conservation and public administration. The courses have made interesting additions to the field.