Seventh Biennial Report of the Department of Conservation and Development of the State of North Carolina: Biennium Ending June 30, 1938 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Seventh Biennial Report of the Department of Conservation and Development of the State of North Carolina: Biennium Ending June 30, 1938

In many respects the Department of Conservation and Development, during the Biennium 1936-38 has passed through one of its most important periods. These years have marked a time of expansion and enlargement of its duties, thereby entailing new responsibilities and greater challenges of services.

Throughout the country there has steadily developed a greater feeling of responsibility on the part of officials and the general public of the fact that we are tenants on this earth for only a brief span and that to be true to our trust we must hand down to generations to follow the resources at our command unimpaired, and, if possible, in better condition than was the case when we came upon the scene.

Not only have those responsible for the administration of the Depart ment endeavored to interpret the demands of the public and the times but they have sought to stay in the van Of popular thought by anticipating the needs of proper conservation measures and policies and attempting to put these into practice.

Thus, it may be seen, the problems of administration broaden into con structive planning, leadership, and research, as well as regulation. It is the duty of those responsible for the conservation program to look ahead and to propose measures which should logically become the policies of tomorrow.

Fortunately for those who labor today in this field, there have been pioneers who have looked far into the future and provided ideas which are now being put into practice, but which might have attained their goal more quickly and with a minimum of loss both in personal and public wealth had they been approved earlier. To these forward-looking men and women we acknowledge a debt Of lasting gratitude for the foundation On which stands our present structure.

While the basic principles laid down by pioneer conservationists remain fixed, they must nevertheless be adapted to changing social and economic conditions; and, on the proper interpretation of these principles and trends, rests the success Of our present day program.

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