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of government, for 50 years. I remember I worked in 1936 on 

 a western range survey. 



The new thing I see here is that Wisconsin has brought all these 

 things together in a synthesis for the purpose of recreation and 

 natural beauty. I think this is a new contribution. 



DANA L. ABELL. I would like to just make a very brief suggestion 

 to the members from Congress. I hope that the representatives here 

 for Senator Jackson and Representative Aspinall will take the word 

 back to them that they did miss a very excellent conference. I feel it 

 has made a point that we have failed to grasp up to now, that there is 

 a quality of wholeness to this environment that is not embodied in the 

 thinking expressed in their remarks to the panel and expressed 

 through the Federal programs. They are thinking in terms of land 

 units and existing programs, and fail to appreciate the fact that land- 

 scape is a whole. Every one of these little projects must be part of 

 a broad range of activities that will create a whole that can be a 

 permanent part of our environment. 



We must think in terms of the whole environment. I hope you 

 convey this to our Representatives. 



A DELEGATE. I am from Vermont and when landscape action 

 programs are implemented, I suggest that you make provision for 

 interstate action. It does us no good to drive up Route 5 in Vermont 

 and view the blight and billboards on the New Hampshire side of 

 the river, and I might say, this is vice versa. This goes for other 

 parts of the country as well as up there. 



LEONARD HALL. It does seem to me that through this conference 

 we keep coming back to the fact that if we are going to succeed, 

 it is going to be by starting from the local rather than the national 

 level. I have been a little shocked in the last few months in talking 

 throughout the Middle West. I have not found one county that 

 knows that a National Association of Counties exists, and yet I know 

 that this is one of the finest sources we have so far for information 

 on projects and about ways to work on these projects. We do have 

 to create more understanding at the local and county level. 



We drive about 40,000 miles a year throughout the United States 

 and nothing is clearer than that you cannot have poverty and natural 

 beauty together. This is true at the urban level and true at the 

 rural and the small community level. At the rural level there is 



