PRINCIPLES OF CONSERVATION The principles which the word Conservation has come to embody are not many, and they are exceedingly simple.

I have had occasion to say a good many times that no other great movement, has ever achieved such progress in so short a time, or made itself felt in so many directions with such vigor and effectiveness, as the movement for the conservation of natural resources.
Forestry made good its position in the United States before the conservation movement was born.

As a forester I am glad to believe that conservation began with forestry, and that the principles which govern the Forest Service in particular and forestry in general are also the ideas that control conservation.
The first idea of real foresight in connection with natural resources arose in connection with the forest.

From it sprang the movement which gathered impetus until it culminated in the great Convention of Governors at Washington in May, 1908.

Then came the second official meeting of the National Conservation movement, December, 1908, in Washington.