Conservation Reader

Nat'l Ass'n Audubon Societies
The passenger pigeon, an extinct species.

Author of Home Geography, Stories of Our Mother Earth, Rocks and Minerals, The Western United States, Practical Physiography, Geography of California, etc.

Established, 1905, by Caspar W. Hodgson
Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York
2126 Prairie Avenue, Chicago
The need for education in the principles of conservation is imperative. As Henry Fairfield Osborn states the matter, We are yet far from the point where the momentum of conservation is strong enough to arrest and roll back the tide of destruction. The movement for the preservation of natural resources can succeed only with the establishment of an enlightened public sentiment on the subject. To create and maintain such a sentiment is the proper work of the schools. In making this Conservation Reader available for school use, author and publishers have had in mind the great and lasting service that such a text might render. The publishers believe that this little volume and others forthcoming in the Conservation Series will rank high among Books That Apply the World's Knowledge to the World's Needs
Copyright, 1920, by World Book Company Copyright in Great Britain All rights reserved

The wave of enthusiasm for the conservation of our national resources must reach the children or it will expend much of its force uselessly.