Harold Titus

“ What do we do with our trout streams? (Always, of course, excluding those few instances where the hand of science is at work) fishing gets bad. We build hatcheries. We raise fry. We dump the fry into the stream and hope for the best. ”

“ The demands on our wild life resources have increased astonishingly since the close of the World War. Highway development, the cheapening of the automobile has made what was wilderness a decade ago readily accessible. And still we have gone on making gestures toward conservation and only gestures. ”

“ Our attempts to salvage a part of all we once possessed, to restore wild life in the places from which it has been driven have been many and varied. They have been enthusiastic, earnest; but, quite generally they have been ineffectual. ”

“ We have treated symptoms and even then without intelligence, if it may be said justly that the doctoring of symptoms is done intelligently. We are in need of a physician, a whole staff of physicians, to study, to diagnose, to prescribe treatment and stay with the patient to see that nothing develops which will make the treatment futile. ”

“ Our operations have, in the majority of cases, been entrusted to office holders instead of competent workers. We have had no adequate program for the country as a whole. We have relied on tradition instead of information. ”

“ Deforestation has gone on blindly from coast to coast Forest fire has run wild annually. Unwise timber taxation has given the logger a splendid basis on which to justify short-sighted activity. Our game covert has narrowed down, narrowed down ”