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as it is unharnessed, unimpounded, and not being used for con- 

 sumption, industry or irrigation. 



In addition, the Ecological Survey should develop the capacity to 

 advise the executive department, Congress and other agencies, on 

 the probable ecological implications and consequences of any and 

 all proposed projects and activities affecting these natural ecosystems. 

 Those aspects of ecology that are generally called agronomy, forest, 

 and range management, public health, flood control, wildlife manage- 

 ment and soil conservation would be excluded specifically from the 

 survey program. 



However, the survey should develop the capability to provide basic 

 ecological information needed by agencies carrying on these activities 

 and might engage in cooperative projects with such agencies or with 

 other Federal, State, local, private, and international groups. 



R. MILTON CARLETON. We sneer at the French peasant, happy 

 to accumulate manure before his home, yet see nothing incongruous 

 in allowing commercial interests to strew our highways with the 

 chromatic garbage of billboards. Unless this conference takes firm, 

 vigorous steps to condemn and work against billboards it will have 

 failed in its mission. 



It is evident, from our sessions that each of us tends to view 

 beauty from his or her particular bias. I see little evidence of 

 ability to grasp the enormous scope of our problems. Naturalists 

 speak of wild flower roadside planting, not realizing that all com- 

 mercial sources of wild flower seeds would hardly sow 10 acres. 

 Ornithologists view the problem of one of loss of bird cover and 

 feed, and of habitat pollution. Roadside enthusiasts see beauty as 

 a giant broom sweeping away ugliness. 



The most distressing aspect of our meetings has been to confuse 

 natural beauty with the substitution of stone for blacktop, row hous- 

 ing for suburban boxes and other manmade structures. Nothing 

 was said of the basic cause of ugliness the intrusion of man into 

 a natural environment, and by his need for shelter and food, destroy- 

 ing as his numbers swelled. 



I would recommend the addition of an ethnologist or anthropolo- 

 gist. Dr. Margaret Mead, an ardent advocate of the need for 

 beauty in life, comes to mind. 



As a rallying point for beauty it is high time that this Nation 

 emulate older cultures and establish the Office of Secretary of Fine 



