Word: conservationism
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Meanwhile, Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager, urged the conservation of electricity, reiterating his plea for students to turn out their room lights when they are not needed. Durant said that an accurate prediction of the effect the coal strike would have on the University will be impossible until more is...
A considerable part of the forest area is set aside for the demonstration of representative cases in forest history or conditions of local silviculture; and another part of over 900 acres is operated as a wild life sanctuary in conjunction with the Massachusetts Department of Conservation. Like Soledad, Petersham too...
There, with the blessing of the Department of Interior and the backing ($3,750,000) of RFC, the privately operated Explorer and its trawlers will conduct an important experiment. It hopes to prove that U.S. fishermen can replace the Japanese who, prewar, caught and processed 66% of the world'...
By this time a great idea had taken shape in Bennett's mind. Farmers would, he was sure, use science voluntarily if properly approached. He proposed that they be persuaded to band together in "soil conservation districts," each choosing its officers in a democratic election, and running its own...
Land Doctors. Bennett became a soil crusader. Year by year more people, and more important people, listened to his prophecies of disaster. In 1933, Secretary of the Interior Ickes made him head of a newly created bureau: the Soil Erosion Service. Two years later Franklin Roosevelt summoned Bennett to the...