More coal and more iron are required to move a ton of freight by rail than by water, three to one.

In every case and in every direction the conservation movement has development for its first principle, and at the very beginning of its work.

The development of our natural resources and the fullest use of them for the present generation is the first duty of this generation.

So much for development.
In the second place conservation stands for the prevention of waste.
There has come gradually in this country an understanding that waste is not a good thing and that the attack on waste is an industrial necessity.

I recall very well indeed how, in the early days of forest fires, they were considered simply and solely as acts of God, against which any opposition was hopeless and any attempt to control them not merely hopeless but childish.