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Show 6. whole nation. The Governors resolved to call conven- tions in their states and to establish state conservation boards to work in conjunction with the national board. The National Conservation Committee President Roosevelt consisted of prising about equal numbers politicians, scientists, made chairman. was fifty-one commissions representing An organizations. inventory taken and the report sources was 1909. Then under the resentatives from every submitted in part was January, a North held, including rep- of North America. Roosevelt, at the conclusion quested the powers of national re- President's supervision. American Conservation Conference ident com 1909, forty-one state commissions had of been established and national forty-nine members, leaders.1rk.'Pinchot and industrial Up to the end of appointed by of the Pres- conference, of the world to meet at the re Hague to consider world-wide conservation. During the Roosevelt administration, two hundred and thirty-four million of land were The President, with bull private entry. kept fighting acres for in the attitude of conservation, but found Congress. servation Association was fairly launched. dog tenacity, some opposition However, the National Con- organized, zations urged to affiliate with it. was withdrawn from It requires and all such organi- Thus conservation education and coopera- |
