Conservation of natural resources
Series: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science -- v. 33, no. 3
Publisher: American Academy of Political and Social Science
Published: 1910
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: Natural resources; Economic conditions; Economic policy
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Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Forestry on private lands [by] G. Pinchot. Public regulation of private forests [by] H.S. Graves. Can the states regulate private forests? [by] F.C. Zacharie.; title: pt. 2. Water as a resource [by] W.J. McGee. Water power in the United States [by] M.O. Leighton. The scope of state and federal legislation concerning the use of waters [by] C.E. Wright. The necessity for state or federal regulation of water power development [by] C.W. Baker. Federal control of water power in Switzerland [by] T. Cleveland.; title: pt. 3. Classification of the public lands [by] G.W. Woodruff. A summary of our most important land laws [by] K. Nelson. Indian lands: their administration with reference to present and future use [by] F.E. Leupp. The conservation and preservation of soil fertility [by] C.G. Hopkins. Farm tenure in the United States [by] H. Gannett. What may be accomplished by reclamation [by] F.H. Newell. The legal problems of reclamation of lands by means in irrigation [by] M. Bien.; title: pt. 4. Our mineral resources [by] G.O. Smith. The production and waste of mineral resources and their bearing on conservation [by] J.A. Holmes. Preservation of the phosphates and the conservation of the soil [by] C.R. Van Hise.