Conference of Governors. United States. President. text Conference papers and proceedings. fast (OCoLC)fst01423772 Conference papers and proceedings. lcgft Washington : Government Printing Office, 1909. eng Includes index. Also issued as: H.Doc.1425 (60th Cong., 2d sess.) and in a large 8vo White House edition. Publication pre-dates Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) item numbers. No FDLP item number has been assigned. American Memory 1908 Proceedings Note: This is the publication of the Conference of Governors held in the White House May 13-15, 1908 under the sponsorship of President Theodore Roosevelt. Gifford Pinchot, at that time Chief Forester of the U.S., was the primary mover of the conference. The focus of the conference was on natural resources and their proper use. President Roosevelt delivered the opening address: "Conservation as a National Duty." Among those speaking were leading industrialists, such as Andrew Carnegie and James J. Hill, politicians, and resource experts. Their speeches emphasized both the nation's need to exploit renewable resources and the differing situations of the various states, requiring different plans. This Conference was a seminal event in the history of conservationism; it brought the issue to public attention in a highly visible way. The next year saw two outgrowths of the Conference: the National Conservation Commission, which Roosevelt and Pinchot set up with representatives from the states and Federal agencies, and the First National Conservation Congress, which Pinchot led as an assembly of private conservation interests. State governments--Congresses. Economic history. Politics and government State governments. United States--Economic conditions--Congresses. United States--Politics and government--Congresses. United States. Proceedings of a Conference of Governors Proceedings of the ... meeting of the Governors of the States of the Union ... https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdclccn.sf82007077