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services in predominantly wildland areas (e.g., the Asheville Basin 

 of North Carolina or Plumas County, Calif.) where most scenic 

 resources, and especially the scenic corridors along virtually all roads, 

 are in private hands. The district could aid in financing high 

 quality recreational developments, control the clutter associated with 

 servicing the public and with drawing them to the area. The dis- 

 trict could hold lands sufficient to provide minimal outdoor recrea- 

 tion services and to give a sense of openness and freedom to the 

 experience of visiting the area. It would be the primary planning 

 agency for the area and would, at the same time, furnish the pro- 

 motional staff, providing what is most desperately lacking in private 

 outdoor recreation tasteful development and publicity. 



Administratively, there are many precedents for such districts, 

 but the nature of its interest and orientation appears to be new. As 

 a precedent for the attitude it might display toward its user public, 

 I would suggest the tourist agency of the Province of Nova Scotia 

 where the European quality of complementing the taste of the 

 visitor and genuinely welcoming him to the vacation areas is mag- 

 nificently demonstrated. 



Between them, these two new types of special districts could do 

 much to strengthen our national campaign to build beauty into every 

 aspect of American life. 



ALAN ARMSTRONG. We in the United States and Canada share 

 a continent, and many of its most beautiful mountain ranges and 

 rivers. The Canadian conservation movement, like the American, 

 owes much to a White House conference of 57 years ago. Look- 

 ing ahead, we may count on more millions of trips across our borders 

 to each other's beauty spots every year. Our continued enjoyment 

 will be insured as we learn together how to safeguard our common 

 heritage. In this we face the same hopes and hazards. 



Both countries look to rapid growth, concentrated in cities. The 

 building components needed to accommodate this growth will be 

 made en masse, which means in repetitive Euclidean shapes. Every 

 day there will come to be a higher scarcity value in the local, weather- 

 worn, unique, and changing forms, textures and colors of America 

 sky, water, hillside, trees, sun-hot earth between bare toes in 

 short, in natural sensations. Yet there will be more free hours in 

 every year for their enjoyment. So each town or city will best ful- 

 fill its own personality by enfolding reminders of its natural and 

 human history within its angular new framework. 



