Produced by Bryan Ness, Stephen H. Sentoff and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net ADDRESSES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND National Conservation Congress HELD AT SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA SEPTEMBER 5-8 1910 [Illustration: BERNARD N. BAKER Baltimore, Md. President, Second National Conservation Congress] PROCEEDINGS OF THE Second National Conservation Congress AT Saint Paul SEPTEMBER 5-8, 1910 "Let us conserve the foundations of our prosperity" (Declaration of the Governors, 1908) WASHINGTON NATIONAL CONSERVATION CONGRESS 1911 W. F. ROBERTS COMPANY PRINTERS WASHINGTON, D. C. [Illustration: HON. J. B. WHITE Kansas City, Mo. Chairman, Executive Committee, Second National Conservation Congress and Third National Conservation Congress] OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES FOR 1909-10 _President_ B. N. BAKER, Baltimore _Executive Secretary_ THOMAS R. SHIPP, Washington, D. C. _Secretary_ L. FRANK BROWN, Seattle _Vice-Presidents_ JOHN BARRETT, Washington, D. C. JAMES S. WHIPPLE, Albany E. J. WICKSON, Berkeley ALFRED C. ACKERMAN, Athens, Ga. HENRY A. BARKER, Providence _Executive Committee_ J. B. WHITE, Kansas City, Mo., _Chairman_ B. N. BAKER, Baltimore J. N. TEAL, Portland, Ore. A. B. FARQUHAR, York, Pa. L. H. BAILEY, Ithaca THOMAS BURKE, Seattle HENRY E. HARDTNER, Urania, La. W. A. FLEMING JONES, Las Cruces Mrs PHILIP N. MOORE, Saint Louis Mrs J. ELLEN FOSTER, Washington, D. C. _Local Board of Managers for the Saint Paul Congress_ Hon. A. O. EBERHART, _Chairman_ FRANK B. KELLOGG, _Vice-Chairman_ J. S. BELL, Minneapolis H. A. TUTTLE, Minneapolis GEORGE M. GILLETTE, Minneapolis B. F. NELSON, Minneapolis L. S. DONALDSON, Minneapolis JOSEPH H. BEEK, Saint Paul GEORGE H. PRINCE, Saint Paul REUBEN WARNER, Saint Paul PAUL W. DOTY, Saint Paul THEODORE W. GRIGGS, Saint Paul W. C. HANDY, _Secretary_ OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES FOR 1910-11 _President_ HENRY WALLACE, Des Moines _Executive Secretary_ THOMAS R. SHIPP, Washington, D. C. _Treasurer_ D. AUSTIN LATCHAW, Kansas City, Mo. _Recording Secretary_ JAMES C. GIPE, Clarks, La. _Executive Committee_ J. B. WHITE, Kansas City, Mo., _Chairman_ B. N. BAKER, Baltimore L. H. BAILEY, Ithaca JAMES R. GARFIELD, Cleveland FRANK C. GOUDY, Denver W. A. FLEMING JONES, Las Cruces Mrs PHILIP N. MOORE, Saint Louis WALTER H. PAGE, New York GEORGE C. PARDEE, Oakland, Cal. GIFFORD PINCHOT, Washington, D. C. J. N. TEAL, Portland, Ore. E. L. WORSHAM, Atlanta _Vice-Presidents_