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county basis and the patterns fell into linear systems. The patterns 

 contain the lands in the flood plains and the land too steep to plow. 

 These patterns are called corridor systems. 



We then, taking those corridor systems, plotted our 260 recreation 

 resources values. The rather exciting result was that we found 90 

 percent of these 260 resources fell within these linear corridor sys- 

 tems. Many times they were clustered within the corridor. We had 

 located the areas of greatest diversity that offer an opportunity to 

 meet the demands for recreation in the future. 



We also found that many of our public lands fell within that 

 corridor system. 



The Conservation Department sent their field people in. They 

 identified all the first, second, and third priority land for fish and 

 game. The patterns found were identical to the corridor system. 

 So we found all of these meaningful values, not only for regulation 

 of water, fish and wildlife and recreation, but for living and working 

 as well falling within the corridors. 



We then knew in the State where our resources were, and what 

 it meant in terms of getting people from here to there to utilize 

 the resources. I need to point out that we have created all types 

 of vehicles in this country, to move people from here to there, and 

 that people move in a linear corridor. 



In formulating our scenic highway program, we take these natural 

 corridors, superimpose on the system designs that have been inven- 

 toried, the highway and trail patterns, and see where these systems 

 run adjacent or across these meaningful patterns. The areas so 

 identified need protection. If there is an area here that will not 

 withstand a great deal of traffic, we need to relieve the pressure 

 on that synoptic area. But we can't do anything until we know 

 where the resources are. 



We can also use these natural corridor systems as an approach to 

 regional, statewide design, hopefully guiding the form of a city in 

 harmony with these natural patterns rather than allowing unguided 

 sprawl to prevail. 



In closing, I would like to make two proposals. First, that the 

 President of the United States, through the Recreation Advisory 

 Council, take appropriate action to encourage statewide conferences 

 on landscape and townscape and to promote a wider understanding 

 of the problem and the opportunities considered in this natural 

 beauty conference. Leadership for such conferences might well 

 be from our universities. 



