Conservation of Natural Resources

THE ANNALS

OF THE

AMERICAN ACADEMY

OF

POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

ISSUED BI-MONTHLY

VOL. XXXIII, No. 3, MAY 1909

EDITOR: EMORY R. JOHNSON

ASSISTANT EDITOR: CHESTER LLOYD JONES
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: CARL KELSEY, L. S. ROWE, WALTER S. TOWER
FRANK D. WATSON, JAMES T. YOUNG

PHILADELPHIA

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Hon. Gifford Pinchot, United States Forester, and Chairman

National Conservation Commission, Washington, D. C.

PUBLIC REGULATION OF PRIVATE FORESTS.....

13

Professor Henry Solon Graves, Director Forest School, Yale,

University, New Haven, Conn.

CAN THE STATES REGULATE PRIVATE FORESTS?..

26

F. C. Zacharie, Esq., of the Louisiana Bar, New Orleans, La.

PART II

WATER RESOURCES AND WATER POWER

WATER AS A RESOURCE..........

37

W. J. McGee, LL.D., Secretary U. S. Inland Waterways Com-

mission; Member National Conservation Commission, Wash-

ington, D. C.

WATER POWER IN THE UNITED STATES.

51

M. O. Leighton, Chief Hydrographer, U. S. Geological Survey,

Washington, D. C.

THE SCOPE OF STATE AND FEDERAL LEGISLATION CON-

CERNING THE USE OF WATERS....

82

Charles Edward Wright, Assistant Attorney to the Secretary

of the Interior, Washington, D. C.

THE NECESSITY FOR STATE OR FEDERAL REGULATION OF

WATER POWER DEVELOPMENT

99

Charles Whiting Baker, C.E., Editor-in-Chief, Engineering

News, New York City.

FEDERAL CONTROL OF WATER POWER IN SWITZERLAND....

Treadwell Cleveland, Jr., Forest Service, Washington, D. C.

PART III

113

CONSERVATION AND USE OF LAND RESOURCES

CLASSIFICATION OF THE PUBLIC LANDS....

.... 121

George W. Woodruff, Assistant Attorney-General for the

Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C.

(ii)

A SUMMARY OF OUR MOST IMPORTANT LAND LAWS...

Hon. Knute Nelson, U. S. Senator from Minnesota; Chairman

of the Senate Committee on Public Lands; and Chairman of

Committee on Lands, National Conservation Commission.

INDIAN LANDS: THEIR ADMINISTRATION WITH REFERENCE

TO PRESENT AND FUTURE USE......

Hon. Francis E. Leupp, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Wash-

ington, D. C.

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136

THE CONSERVATION AND PRESERVATION OF SOIL FERTILITY

Cyril G. Hopkins, Chief in Agronomony and Chemistry, Univer-

sity of Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station, Urbana, Ill.

147

FARM TENURE IN THE UNITED STATES....

163

Henry Gannett, Geographer U. S. Geological Survey, Washing-

ton, D. C.

WHAT MAY BE ACCOMPLISHED BY RECLAMATION..

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Hon. Frederick H. Newell, Director U. S. Reclamation Service,

Washington, D. C.

THE LEGAL PROBLEMS OF RECLAMATION OF LANDS BY

MEANS OF IRRIGATION

180

Morris Bien, Supervising Engineer, U. S. Reclamation Service,

Washington, D. C.

PART IV

MINERALS: THEIR WASTE AND PRESERVATION

OUR MINERAL RESOURCES

195

Hon. George Otis Smith, Director, U. S. Geological Survey,

Washington, D. C.

THE PRODUCTION AND WASTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES

AND THEIR BEARING ON CONSERVATION....

202

J. A. Holmes, Chief, Technologic Branch, U. S. Geological Sur-

vey; Member of National Conservation Commission, Wash-

ington, D. C.

PRESERVATION OF THE PHOSPHATES AND THE CONSERVA-

TION OF THE SOIL.....

Charles Richard Van Hise, President of the University of Wis-

consin, Madison, Wis.

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