Excerpt from 1961 Annual Report, the Secretary of the Interior: For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1961 Dear mr. President: Transmitted herewith is the annual report of the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year 1961. In preparing this summary of departmental activities we have been mindful of the statement in your special message to the Congress on natural resources that wise investment in a resource program today will return vast dividends tomorrow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.