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they have been limited by the rules and regulations of their organi- 

 zation. They cannot devote money in their budget nor do they 

 have the proper personnel to consider it. I feel we are now lacking a 

 proper educational program. Visual experiences, written experi- 

 ences, through our schools, will create a new generation that will 

 be aware of it. 



I feel the people who are in the underpriveleged areas that were 

 mentioned earlier, if given the opportunity to see what beauty is in 

 other areas, will make an effort to change that situation in their own 

 area. 



I would like to direct a question to Professor Scheffey. Have you 

 given any thought how the pilot study that you have suggested could 

 be implemented? I have been proposing such a study on the West 

 Coast. How would you implement such a program, recognizing 

 that it should be done in each area? What are the mechanics of 

 getting something started? 



Dr. SCHEFFEY. I haven't given any thought to specifics. I think 

 this would depend upon the area in which it is going on. What we 

 might do in New England would be vastly different than what would 

 take place in the Southeast or Southwest. 



Mrs. NATHANIEL A. OWINGS. I want to make a comment. I be- 

 lieve a farm landscape is a dead landscape without life, without wild- 

 life and birds. And the new elements affecting those two are the use, 

 and overuse, and misuse of pesticides. 



I am one of many who hope that we can seek out and encourage 

 safer pest control methods and further restraint in their application. 



Now, one other comment I have to make, more related to my Park 

 Commission work, and that is a question directed to Dr. Darling. 

 How might we control the use of peripheral lands around State and 

 national parks? You spoke about this misuse of the lands on the 

 edges of our parks, which we are all aware of. I am wondering if you 

 are thinking of a kind of instant zoning when the park is acquired or 

 are you thinking of an arm of the government moving in? 



This is something that we have not found an answer to and I, 

 therefore, would ask what you had in mind. 



Dr. DARLING. At the moment, I believe you could not act very 

 much above the county level. Zoning in this country is at the county 

 level. But one would hope that it would reach the State level, that 

 the use of lands could be guided at least. What is upsetting, I think, 



