The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21
CONSERVATION OF
GREAT RESOURCES
Meeting viii Be Held in New
Orleans November |
MOVE FOR BETTER LAWS
Governors of Fourteen States Will Be
Present and clifford Pinchot Will
Address Convention on
Waste of Timber.
MOVE FOR BETTER LAWS

Washington. October 20.-Believing
that the time has come for definite &C
tion looking to the conservation of the
nations great natural resources, lead
ers In this movement from all parts of
the country will gather in New Orleans
on November 1 next, when the first i'm
portant steps toward putting the prin-
ciples of conservation into practical eff
feet will be taken.
The occasion will be an important
conference of the chairmen of state
conservation commissions of the south
and others. The governors and chair
men of conservation commissions OF
Ia southern states, Clifford Pinch OF, ma
tional forester, and chairman of the
joint committee on conservation; ]. b.
White, chairman of the executive com
mittee of the National Conservation
congress, and others will actively par
ticpate in the proceedings The annual
convention of the Lake-to-the-Gulf
Waterways association will be in ses-
sion in New Orleans at that time and
it is expected that conservationists will
be on hand in large numbers
On the night of November 1, the
state conservation commissions chair
men will confer with Clifford Pinchot
upon methods of conservation work,
difficulties encountered as results ac
complished by the various commissions
represented.
1t is expected that recommends tions
will ha made for ba Admitting nv the
various state legislatures of special
laws that will have for their object the
arresting of the great waste that is
now going on in the south's natural
resources and thereby saving them to
posterity.
The chairmen of the following south
ern states conservation commissions
Maryland, Missouri, Oklahoma. South
Carolina. Texas, Virginia, Georgia.
West Virginia Arkansas, Alabama,
Kentucky. Florida and Louisiana
The opening programme as proposed
here provides. in addition to welcoming
addresses by Mayor Martin Behrman OF
New Orleans, Governor Sanders of Louis
lana and II. E. Hardtner, president of the
Louisiana conservation commission, adj
dresses by B. N. Baker of Maryland, pres
ident of the national conservation con-
gress; ]. B. White on THE Prevention of
Timber Waste" Representative Ransdell
of Louisiana on Conservation of Our
Waterway" Conservation as a Princi-
pie" by G. Grosyenor Dave, managing
director of the southern commercial con-
gress; Forestry in louisiana" by F.
]. Grace, state forester. Mr.. Pinchot will
make the closing set address, to be fol-
lowed by 10-minute addresses by COVER
nors and representatives of the state con-
servation commissions.
I'm the Judgment of many" said Mr..
Pinchot tonight In speaking OF the con-
ference 1.-The improvement of our inland
waterways is one of the most vital prob
lens relating to the conservation of our
natural resources. Indeed any compre-
hensive plan of waterways Improvement,
even though it may be primarily for navi-
cation purposes, must take into consid-
Grafton the use of the waters for irriga-
ton, water power and domestic supply.
Lasting waterway Improvement depends
largely on the conservation of forests to
protect the head waters and to prevent
soil erosion. AS former President Roose-
Welt so forcibly said in speaking of the
conservation movement, There Is no other
question of equal gravity now before the
nation"