Resource Conservation
4 Club founded to save birds from destruction 6 Gospel of engineers 7 Spokeswoman for conservation movement 9 Taking of water for beneficial purpose (legal term) 14 Author of Man and Nature 15 A measure of land 18 Constituency of early conservation clubs 19 Having little rainfall 20 President who supported conservation 21 Author of Economics of Forestry |
1 Act promoting settlement on 160 acres of land 2 Interpreter of the Significance of the American Frontier 3 Leader of expedition down the Colorado River 5 Father of U.S. forestry 8 Place where Oregon Trail crossed the Continental Divide (2 wds) 10 Legal term applied to use of water along a stream bank 11 Act that funded dams and irrigation projects in the West 12 Edge of unsettled region 13 Savior of California's Calavaras Big Trees 16 System for channeling water to crops 17 Focus of Pinchot's conservation efforts |