Excerpt from Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior: For the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1963 On President Kennedy's late fall conservation tour of the United States he quoted Robert Frost's remark: What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography. He went on to pay tribute to this good piece of geography that is America, but as both you and he have emphasized what is important is what the people of America do with it. There is little we can do in the field of conservation today that will materially alter our lives in the next 3 or 4 years. But we can build today for the 70's, just as those great men with distance in their eyes built for us, back in the early part of this century. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.