Department Of Conservation
Published: 2017-12-22
Total Pages: 48
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Excerpt from Louisiana Conservation Review, Vol. 2: February 1932 George Washington believed in the building of a national government and a nation as nearly sufficient unto itself as possible. This meant the creation of re sources sufficient for emergency. It meant the conservation of resources, and one of the most vital of these is our forests. While the planting of ten or even twenty million trees, many of which will be in groves and individual plantings, may not materially add to our forest re serve, they will accomplish one thing. These plantings will focus the attention of our people on the need of reforestation. Thus in this program of commemoration is to be found an educational movement of immense value; an activity which certainly Washington would heartily approve. So let us grasp this opportunity; let us treble, if we can, the original goal of ten million Washington trees. 'let us render, through this means, honor to this man whose gift to the progress of the freedom of man and to the erection of a democracy cannot be dimmed by the passage of time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.