The Library of Congress's General Collection includes several works attesting to the stimulation of conservation awareness and state-level conservation activity accomplished by the Governors' Conference on the Conservation of Natural Resources held at the White House in May, 1908. After consulting works included in the Conservation Collection, readers who have direct access to the Library, or to other major research libraries, might wish to look at titles such as those on the list below. They might also wish to consult some of the titles on another Additional Resources list, "State-Level Fish and Game Conservation Measures, c.1850-1920."
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California. Conservation of natural resources. Sacramento, 1909.
LC CALL NUMBER: HC107.C2A6 1909
LCCN: 09-29708
Colorado. Report of the Colorado Conservation Commission to the governor. Organized at the city of Denver, March 11, 1909. From March, 1909, to April, 1910. Denver, 1910.
LC CALL NUMBER: HC107.C7A25
LCCN: 12-12752
Iowa. Report of the Iowa State Drainage Waterways and Conservation Commission for the biennial period ending January 1911. [Cedar Rapids, 1911].
LC CALL NUMBER: HC107.I7A4
LCCN: 11-33078
Louisiana. Report of the Louisiana Conservation Commission of 1910. [N.p., 1911].
LC CALL NUMBER: HC107.L8A3
LCCN: 11-33108
Maryland. Report of the Conservation Commission of Maryland for 1908-1909. [N.p.], 1909.
LC CALL NUMBER: HC107.M3A5 1909
LCCN: 10-28665
Minnesota. Addresses delivered at the Minnesota Conservation and Agricultural Development Congress, March 16, 17, 18 and 19, 1910, at the Auditorium, St. Paul. Edited by C.R. Barns under direction of the Committee on Publication. St. Paul, [1910].
LC CALL NUMBER: HC107.M6M5 1910
LCCN: agr10-1902
Montana. Report of the Commission on Conservation....January 14, 1911. [N.p., 1911].
LC CALL NUMBER: HC107.M9A7 1911
LCCN: 11-33041
Oregon. Report of the Oregon Conservation Commission to the governor, November 1908. [N.p., 1909].
LC CALL NUMBER: HC107.O7A5 1908
LCCN: 09-2969
Utah. Preliminary report of the Utah Conservation Commission, 1909. Salt Lake, 1909.
LC CALL NUMBER: HC107.U8A4 1909
LCCN: Agr10-571
West Virginia. Report of the West Virginia Conservation Commission, 1908. Charleston, 1909.
LC CALL NUMBER: HC107.W5A5 1908
LCCN: 09-6500
Wisconsin. First report of the Conservation Commission of the state of Wisconsin to the Hon. James O. Davidson, Governor of Wisconsin. Madison, 1909.
LC CALL NUMBER: HC107.W6A4
LCCN: 13-33264