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Excerpt from Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior: For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1936 MY dear mr. President: I have the honor to transmit the annual report of the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ended J une 30, 1936. The work of the Department of the Interior is concerned re dominantly with the custodianship of a vast national estate. Ore than 95 percent of the annual and permanent appropriations made for the work of the Department during the fiscal year 1936 are for taking an inventory of the natural physical resources of the United States, for undertaking, the wise development and use of such re sources, and for the education, health, and recreation of the people of the nation. It is a department of conservation - conservation of those physical and human resources on which depend the future of America. Water, land, and minerals - these three comprise the base for a program of conservation of natural resources. Knowledge of their existence in quality, quantity, and location, followed by wise develop ment of water resources, prudent use of land and its products, and orderly exploitation of mineral deposits, without waste, will insure a sound and permanent foundation for the material welfare of the citizens of the United States. 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.