10 POINT LOBOS RESERVE 



information as to all of the natural features at Point Lobos which have 

 human interest or appeal. An exceptional aspect of this program was the 

 effort to bring together data obtained by specialists in all fields of knowl- 

 edge represented at Point Lobos. The information from these varied sub- 

 jects was then brought together in such a way as to relate the items con- 

 cerning each portion or feature of the area, to elements in other fields of 

 knowledge which may relate to some portions of the area or to comparable 

 things represented in the complex of Point Lobos. Plotting each factor from 

 the point of view of art, esthetic appreciation, zoology, botany, ecology, 

 geology, paleontology, archeology, and early human history, consideration 

 was then given to the extent to which these factors or features conflicted, 

 or the extent to which they could be fitted together in a mosaic program 

 made more valuable or more beautiful because of this interlocking of dif- 

 ferent elements. 



While a program of this nature does not seem to have been worked out 

 before specifically for any area with these ideas in mind, the general point 

 of view of nature as a mosaic of many elements has been considered by 

 writers in various fields. Particularly should one remember some reference 

 to this situation in Heine 's, ' ' Die Harzreise. ' ' 



In development of those features which have to do with accessibility to 

 human beings and with administration it was also necessary, at Point Lobos, 

 to determine the influence that development for purposes of accessibility 

 may have upon future value of the region. 



It is extremely interesting to note the way in which landscape architects 

 have given consideration to elements in the picture of Point Lobos which 

 have human interest or value in the field of esthetic appreciation or nature 

 appreciation. This is the approach which landscape men should take in 

 consideration of a primitive area, which is to ask, first of all, what are 

 the elements which have human value ? These will perhaps rest upon other 

 elements than those involved in landscape study. They may be features 

 which have come to be known through study of the geology or the history 

 that one knows will have esthetic value comparable to design or pattern so 

 commonly used as a basis of judgment by the landscape architect. 



It is to be noted that study of the Point Lobos problem has been ap- 

 proached by the method which is natural, normal, and necessary, namely 

 determining first what the values are in the area and then making a decision 

 as to how the area should be made accessible and how it may be used. 

 From this studj^, educational movements will develop which will make 

 clear to visitors the elements that have been discovered through an intensive 

 appraisal of the values of the region. 



