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6) Let Congress set aside more wilderness areas, furnish one game warden for each national forest. Senator Walcott of Connecticut, the Committee's chairman, is himself a keen gunner and fisherman. With his two sons and four setters he shoots the fat quail of Virginia and South Carolina when...
Last week five Senator: who are interested in U. S. animals, members of the special Senate Committee on Conservation of Wild Life Resources, made their first report to fellow-Senators. They announced that the U. S. must do more if its animals are to be kept from extinction. The Senators...
1) Formulation of the principle of conservation of energy - the first law of thermodynamics.
Petroleum. In 1924 President Coolidge appointed an oil conservation board, saying: "The supremacy of nations may be determined by the possession of available petroleum and its products. . . . Over- production in itself encourages cheapness, which in turn leads to wastefulness and disregard of essential values." Fear of anti-trust prosecution has...
ASCERTAINED AND MEASURES PLANNED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEM AND WITH THE EQUALLY IMPORTANT FACTS OF HUMAN NATURE. Chairman of the planning committee, Aldo Leopold of Madison, Wis., chief of the American Game Survey, submitted the new program. The committee had found that American farmers can do more toward increasing game...