CHAPTER 4 



THE FEDERAL-STATE-LOCAL 

 PARTNERSHIP 



10:30 a.m., Monday, May 24 



The Chairman, Mr. GODDARD. With your permission I will quote 

 very briefly from a report I presented to the North American Wild- 

 life and Natural Resources Conference held here several months ago. 



The task of conservation in the years ahead is to convert men from 

 a parasite of earth to its steward, not just because we enjoy the beauty 

 and bounty of the earth for its own sake, though we do, but because 

 the continued existence of civilized man himself is involved. The 

 conservation must unite a parasite of earth to its steward the re- 

 source sciences with an aesthetic for a new America. We must make 

 sure that from here on out, we are running our technology and it is no 

 longer running us. Technological know-how must become the chief 

 handmaiden for creating and preserving a balanced, healthy, and 

 beautiful environment capable of supporting man and his fellow- 

 creatures indefinitely. 



The majority of the panels of this great and historic White House 

 Conference on Natural Beauty are in my mind technical in nature. 

 They will recommend and suggest specifics to accomplish the goals 

 you and I are looking for. The great challenge as I see it for our 

 Panel on the Federal-State-Local Partnership is to suggest ways of 

 getting the job done. 



We have an aroused public interest. We have a sympathetic 

 Congress. Conservation and the preservation of natural beauty has 



Members of the Panel on the Federal-State-Local Partnership were 

 Ramsey Clark, Robert Edman, Maurice K. Goddard (chairman), 

 Luther Gulick, Senator Edmund S. Muskie, Joseph Penfold, and 

 Fred Smith. Staff Associate was Norman Beckman. 



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