Conservation
Always an avid outdoorsman, he served as a director of the American Forestry Association and on the Pacific Northwest Regional Forestry Advisory Council. During the 1950s he was a member of the Hoover Commission Task Force on Water Resources and Power. Sawyer died of a heart attack on October 13, 1959. A former Oregon state park (now a city park) near Bend is named for him.
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Famous quotes containing the word conservation:
“The putting into force of laws which shall secure the conservation of our resources, as far as they may be within the jurisdiction of the Federal Government, including the more important work of saving and restoring our forests and the great improvement of waterways, are all proper government functions which must involve large expenditure if properly performed.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.”
—Aristide Briand (1862–1932)