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The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920
Public land convention, Denver, 1907.
CREATED/PUBLISHED
Denver, Press of the Western newspaper union, 1907.
SUMMARY
American Memory note: The Denver Public Land Convention of 1907 represented the first large-scale organized opposition to Federal conservation policy in the West. Sponsored by the Colorado legislature and Governor Henry Buchtel, attended by representatives of Western grazing, agricultural and mining interests and by several cabinet members dispatched by President Roosevelt to defend his administration's position, the Convention revealed the deep disquiet caused by the administration's attempt to reform public land policy, especially through leasing and national-forest grazing fees. It also exposed conflicts over resource management among different economic interests in the West, notably between cattlemen, who generally supported public-lands leasing and often opposed irrigation, and farmers and sheepmen, who generally took the opposite points of view. Although the convention produced no immediate concrete results, its calls for cession of public lands to the states and for restriction of national forests suggest that the basic grounds of opposition to national conservation policy, which have extended so strongly into the late twentieth century, had already been largely established by 1907.
NOTES
"Called by the governor of Colorado in compliance with a resolution of the sixteenth General assembly of that state ... for the purpose of discussing the relations of the states to these lands."--Preface.
LC copy replaced by microform.
SUBJECTS
United States--Public lands.
State rights.
RELATED NAMES
Johnson, Frederick P.
MEDIUM
176 p. 23 cm.
CALL NUMBER DIGITAL ID
HD171.A15 P8 1907
Microfilm 84/5548 (HD)
amrvg vg56
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