Annual Report Of The Conservation Commission 1914

Author : New York
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ISBN 13 : 9781332298600
Total Pages : 416 pages
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Download or read book Annual Report of the Conservation Commission, 1919 (Classic Reprint) written by New York and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Annual Report of the Conservation Commission, 1919 At the same time, there are many aspects of conservation wherein the policy of the State is well defined and established; such, for example, as the protection and reproduction of the forests, and the protection and propagation of fish and game. The difficulties met in dealing with these phases of conservation are the everyday problems, first of finding the necessary money, and second, of using it with good judgment guided by the light of experience. The drawbacks along these lines are such as pertain to the whole State government. The calls upon the State for increased governmental activities are recurrent and numerous; but the people demand strict economy, and insist that the State must live within its means. To reconcile these conflicting demands is a problem requiring wise statesmanship; but it is not peculiar to the field of conservation. Conservation Virtually Self-Supporting While the production of revenue is not the major purpose of the conservation movement, nevertheless the Conservation Commission collects large sums which go to aid the public treasury. For the fiscal year ending September 30, 1914, the total receipts of this Commission turned into the State Treasury amounted to $381,116.86, This is a record, our total receipts for 1913 having been $316,407.87; for 1912, $256,002.84, and for 1911, $258,226.65. A conservative computation of the commercial value of the output of the fish hatcheries and the game farm, including brood stock, for the last fiscal year, would add $215,454.62 thereto. In other words, the Conservation Commission produced last year direct revenues of $381,000 plus an indirect value of $215,000, making a total in money or its equivalent of $596,000, as against a total departmental expenditure for all purposes of $640,000. Judged by the tests which would be applied to a private business, conservation virtually supports itself. 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.