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physical and cultural landscape. If, to enhance the natural beauty 

 of a given area, the existing economic balance were to be destroyed 

 without due consideration for alternative economic support measures, 

 such action would be no more harmonious than would be the up- 

 setting of the ecological balance through the draining of a marsh. 

 And if, to enjoy certain natural beauties, man must destroy others in 

 his provision of approach roads and recreation support facilities, then 

 an understanding of this kind of balance must be reached. 



A number of panelists and speakers from the audience have called 

 for the establishment of a permanent Citizen's Commission on Nat- 

 ural Beauty. We recommend that to such a commission a special 

 advisory panel or subcommission be attached, consisting of repre- 

 sentatives from as wide a group of learned and professional societies 

 as possible. Concern with the man-environmental system in its 

 totality, not simply natural beauty in its narrowest sense, should 

 be the basis for constituting this subpanel. Consequently, the prob- 

 lem is more than simply one for landscape architecture, planning, 

 engineering and economics. It is one for biology, botany, forestry, 

 geography, political science, pedalogy, psychology, sociology, and a 

 number of other fields equally concerned. A broad advisory sub- 

 commission drawn from the scholarly disciplines, can give intellec- 

 tual breadth and balance to a Citizen's Commission on Natural 

 Beauty. We strongly urge that it be established. 



JOHN C. CALHOUN, Jr. Purposeful manipulation of our environ- 

 ment is a proper and necessary act of society, but not all of man's 

 manipulations turn out to be for his good. The conference on 

 Natural Beauty is dedicated to finding actions which will improve 

 the chances that purposeful manipulations will yield positive rather 

 than negative results. Improvements along three lines are needed, 

 all of which have been mentioned during conference discussions. 

 These needs can be appropriately provided by an action to create 

 a U.S. Ecological Survey. 



First, we need prior analyses of the effects which will follow from 

 resource development and construction projects. Too often changes 

 are recognized only after they have happened and when they can- 

 not be undone. We need to look ahead more than we do at present. 



Most of man's activities have an influence on living organisms. 

 In some cases these effects are avoidable; in others they are not. 

 In most all cases the biological consequences are predictable, and 

 such predictions should be added to the considerations which attend 



