The author writes in the preface that those who immediately follow us will pay still more deary for past misuse of natural resources, which belongs to them in common with ourselves. The thought that a boy's book on conservation had possibilities for usefulness came trough the conviction that American boys are even more deeply concerned with what is being done with the great natural resources than those Americans who are boys no longer.
With a foreword by Gifford Pinchot.Illustrated from photographs. Index on pages 239-242.