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Theodore Roosevelt

CHAPTER VIII
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None save fit men must be appointed; and their retention in office must depend purely upon the zeal, ability, and efficiency with which they perform their duties.

The game wardens in the forests must be woodsmen; and they should have no outside business.
In short, there should be a thorough reorganization of the work of the Commission.

A careful study of the resources and condition of the forests on State land must be made.

It is certainly not too much to expect that the State forests should be managed as efficiently as the forests on private lands in the same neighborhoods.

And the measure of difference in efficiency of management must be the measure of condemnation or praise of the way the public forests have been managed.
"The subject of forest preservation is of the utmost importance to the State.


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