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Show Protect the Public Lands Protecting the public land heritage is the business of every American. If you want to help fight in the cause for better conservation con-servation and management. Make it your business to learn about the public lands, their uses and many values. Find out what public lands are near your home and within your state. Start educational projects on land management and the forces that destroy the public land heritage, such as soil erosion, water pollution, over-grazing, drainage of wet lands and forest fires. Work through schools, civic groups, youth groups. Encourage and support scientific research and good conservation con-servation practices. Work through the colleges and universities, the forest service, park service, bureau of land management and the various departments of your state government that control con-trol land use. Demonstrate land-use and water management methods that protect or improve the lands. This one is for farmers, ranchers, industrialists and others who change the face of the land. Get behind the programs of state and federal conservation agencies. Work toward public purchase and management of vital areas such as waterfowl marshes. Use your citizenship and your vote, if necessary, to protect our state, federal and county lands, the refuges, parks, forests and wilderness areas from encroachment and destruction. Support sound water pollution control laws. Work for adequate ade-quate sewage treatment by every city and for control of industrial in-dustrial wastes. Join a conservation club and support the efforts of state and national conservation organizations. |