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to insure that their special knowledge of the natural environment 

 is made available to planning agencies (and similar governmental 

 units including State and Federal agencies such as highway depart- 

 ments and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) in quickly assimilated 

 map and digest form : ( 1 ) locating significant areas, ( 2 ) defining 

 their limits, (3) describing the reasons for their designation, and 

 (4) evaluating their relative importance to one another, noting 

 particularly where they represent the full spectra of the flora and 

 fauna of the region on land or under water. (This would not 

 be true for New York City but could be true elsewhere. ) 



Once charted, periodic reviews of the areas could be made and 

 reported. The rate of loss and the yearly inroads could be seen by 

 comparisons of year-to-year maps. Action programs could be fos- 

 tered, but most importantly the planning bodies would be in- 

 formed and on notice, so to speak. 



Casual sampling of planners and designers has indicated that these 

 professionals would appreciate and can use this particular kind of 

 data both for planning purposes and for leverage value. 



This proposal closely parallels a proposal called "Heritage Master- 

 mapping A Proposal for Community Self-Study of Its Physical 

 Environment" which I have prepared and which is available to the 

 interested reader. 



MAX M. THARP. Housing for migrant workers is often the most 

 unsightly and wretched of all living quarters in rural communities. 

 Decent and attractive houses for migrant workers should be provided 

 through a program designed to upgrade the status of these people. 

 Federal assistance should be given in eliminating this blight on our 

 rural landscapes. 



JOHN TOWER. This comment is an extension of the expression by 

 Dr. Edward Crafts of the need for recognizing the affirmative actions 

 that have already been taken in various areas and by various sectors 

 of our society in achieving some of the objectives this conference was 

 called to discuss. 



One thing that was missing from every discussion I have attended 

 has been any recognition of the role our Nation's managed forests 

 are playing today and can play in the future in attaining the objec- 

 tives of the conference. I am thinking first, of course, of the role 

 of the forest lands that are owned and managed for sustained yield 

 production of successive timber crops by the wood-using industry. 

 However, the same benefits are being received from the much larger 



