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We are interested in the educational end of this thing, and we 

 would like to get people started in this direction. We know the 

 universities could hold these clinics if the Federal Government would 

 encourage them and might even send down a mandate to this effect. 



The soil and water people are already working in this area. 

 Could we get them to hold clinics and invite men who are interested? 



Dr. BOOKER WHAJLEY. I would like to direct my question to 

 Professor Scheffey. When you spoke of training landscape man- 

 agers, what level of training did you have in mind, degree-type train- 

 ing or not? 



Dr. SCHEFFEY. I didn't specify whether this is professional train- 

 ing or post-professional training. I think both are needed. 



I think, as we move more and more into this area of over-all land- 

 scape manipulation, we have to get closer cooperation on the part of 

 a number of disciplines and departments. 



I think that this has to be encouraged at the university and gradu- 

 ate level. At the same time there is a need to follow up on the sug- 

 gestion that was just made for some sort of clinic or short course or 

 whatever, for what I would refer to as the landscape shapers. These 

 could be road agencies, public works people, or it could be private 

 developers, in order to give them some understanding and involve- 

 ment in the sorts of things that are being talked about here, specifi- 

 cally, the role of aesthetics and other forms of developments. 



I would think this should take place both at the professional aca- 

 demic level, and also in the area of short courses and clinics. That 

 is a good suggestion that I hadn't thought about. 



Dr. JOSEPH SHOMON. One of the things I would like to offer as 

 a comment and as a concrete proposal to this group is that we con- 

 sider islands of green around all of our major 2,000 cities around the 

 United States and that we convert these islands of green to educa- 

 tional, scientific and aesthetic and cultural purposes by making them 

 into the community nature education centers that we so badly need 

 around America. 



All of you here probably know that a new film has just been re- 

 leased by the U.S. Forest Service in cooperation with the Audubon 

 Society. It is entitled "Islands of Green." If you want to know 

 how to have one of these centers in your community, be sure to get 

 a copy of this film. It has the highest level of government and pri- 

 vate sector conservation endorsement in this country. 



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