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And thirdly, the regional, State and local landscape architects 

 should be retained to keep the program on a steady basis. These 

 people should be employed on a "while employed" basis, to work 

 with the existing agencies to make the awards, and sometimes draw 

 plans. 



It is important that those chosen for this task be quite familiar, 

 through several years' experience in these areas, with the climatic 

 and natural and available plant life conditions. 



We submit this as a proposed method of starting on the local level. 



PAUL N. CARLIN. In your introductory comments you said you 

 were looking for specific courses of action which can be followed at the 

 local level. 



I would like to report, as a representative of the National Associa- 

 tion of Counties, that the elected leaders of both the city and county 

 governments are willing to participate in many of these programs. 

 What they need from people such as are represented at this con- 

 ference and in this room today is their enthusiastic expression of sup- 

 port. These elected leaders need to know the types of programs you 

 are interested in. As an illustration of what I am talking about, 

 you can find many county and city governments willing to undertake 

 projects such as the Harris County astrodome, in Houston, Tex., a 

 project encompassing a $30 million expenditure, all the way down 

 to small counties in northern Idaho or small towns and counties in 

 North Carolina, which are willing to cooperatively work together 

 with Federal agencies and citizen organizations to develop programs. 



What they need more than anything else is the continued 

 support of individual citizens and individual groups within their 

 communities. 



TED KREINES. I am a city planner with the Peace Corps in 

 Tunisia. 



It seems to me that every point which has been brought up at this 

 conference and others I have attended, all fall back to education 

 education either of our leaders in local and municipal governments, 

 or of such people as vandals, farmers with slopes, or those people 

 who live in the flood plains. 



Whatever the problem is, it seems to me it is some type of educa- 

 tion which is lacking. 



Prof. Lewis so overwhelmed us with the techniques which he uses 

 and has been using in Wisconsin, that I did not get a good idea of 

 what he meant by establishing an awareness among the general 



