Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

We must start at the bottom and persuade the farmer that he must only take off his woodlot each year the amount of trees equivalent to the growth made in that woodlot that year.

Context

Remarks at the Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of State Conservation at Lake Placid

09/13/1935

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