Word: conservationism
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The Federal Power Commission, that small but potent dynamo of political disturbances, generated fresh currents of news last week when President Hoover appointed its five new members. Until Congress at its last session reorganized it on a full-time basis, this Commission was composed of the Secretaries of War, Interior...
Annually for 16 years U. S. and Canadian game officials, game breeders, scientists, sportsmen have met to talk over conservation problems at the American Game Conference held under the auspices of the American Game Protective & Propagation Association. Last week in Manhattan they met for the 17th time. This time, they...
Interior. Ray Lyman Wilbur, president of Stanford University, sent in a thick, beautifully written report which read like a modern college textbook. Sample: "Continental conservation is the key to the future of this Nation. . . . Conservation is a term, around which much confusion has reigned. Conservation means wise use. Wise use...
Concerning oil & gas, he said that the 17,500 prospecting permits outstanding in March 1929 had been reduced to 5,094. "The conservation policy has resulted in blowing a great deal of speculative paper off the public domain."
The More Game Birds in America foundation opened its offices fortnight ago in Manhattan. Unlike most other bird societies, its aim is propagation of birds rather than conservation. The members believe that U. S. game birds are being destroyed by "vermin" and starved, not shot to death. Land drainage, which...