Forester Movement Urges California Big Trees Preservation
A 1906 address at the General Federation of Women's Clubs in St Paul calls for protecting California giant trees and creating forest reserves in the White Mountains and Appalachians. It links nature preservation with national reform, urges home life and Mother-led influence to shape policy, and promotes the Homecroft movement for garden homes and independent work.
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General Federation of Women’s Clubs
St. Paul, Minn
Mills
California
National Irrigation Movement
Vnd
White Mountains
Appalachian Range
Christ
Rome
Carthage
Mediterranean
Palmyra
Asia
Appalachian Mountains
Appalachian Forest Reserve
White Mountain Forest
New Ireland
Paniuma
Philippine Islands
Arizona
New Mexico
Pennsylvania
Ossa
Pelion
Mother Earth
Tesus
Eden
Ijtomecrofters
Max Well
Homemaker Magazine
Fisher Building
Chicago
Croft and Garden Verse Echoes Past Sunday Morn
A fragment recalls a little croft with corn plot and a garden of peas mint and thyme. Flowers for posies were gathered as church bells rang their earliest chimes on Sunday morn.
Public Lands and Water Rights Proposals For Irrigation System
A series of policy measures urge Congress to fund irrigation construction as a loan from the general treasury and repeal land grants to states. Proposals include ensuring lands go to actual settlers, ending land scrip, creating permanent forest reserves, uniting land and water ownership, and prioritizing beneficial use and interstate water distribution under a unified framework.
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Secretary of the Interior
Congress
General Treasury
Ieclamation Fund
Public Lands Commission
Roosevelt
United States
Columbia
Sacramento
Colorado
Rio Grande
Missouri
Homecrofters Gild Promotes Rural Education Movement
The first Homecrofters Gild is formed in Watertown Massachusetts at 143 Main Street with a Garden School and Weavers at work. The prospectus calls for local circles to foster town and village betterment through education Garden training and ownership of land on the model of public homecraft in rural areas.
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Homecroft
Watertown
Massachusetts
Main Street
Homecrofters
Somecrofters
Main St
Rec
New Zealand
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Forestry and Homecrofts
George H. Maxwell
Talisman
Brotherhood OF Man Charity
Nippon
Mass
THE
Republic
Grunly
George LW. Maxwell
United Ownership OF Land
Homecrofts Cooperation
National Irrigation Association
Brotherhood of Man
Charity
Tite Homecrofters
Opportunity Homecrofts
Tul
Charles F. Dole
Theodore C. Williams
Hackley School
New York
San Francisco
London Spectator
Bradford
England
Watertown, Mass
Maxwell
Crockett
Texas